Learn from images- a shareware program to help you
New Program, 30 July 2012!
This may be a little "raw", but it is fully working. And based on an older application, so it is a little less "raw" than some new programs are. (It is similar to MGA14.
MGA27 is at present FREEWARE... you can download it, and use it as long as you wish. You do not have to "register". The question sets devised for MGA14 will work with MGA27. PLEASE try it? PLEASE send feedback? (The download is just a zip[ file... unzip to the folder of your choice and it "is installed". The .exe that comes out of the .zip archive is the MGA27 application, not a "setup" program. The program WILL write an ini file to your disk, in whatever folder you have put MGA27.exe in.
The program puts an image on the screen. Beneath the image there are three buttons. One's label will be something related to the image, the other labels will be unrelated.
I wrote the program to help me to learn the names of pupils I see infrequently. A face appears on the screen, and three buttons with three names. Users click on the button they think matches the image. If right, a new problem appears. If wrong, that label goes red, and the user tries again. Thus users get instant feedback when they are ignorant, and an immediate chance to try again. If they succeed on their second attempt, they go on to the next problem, if not, they get to see what the right answer was. (It will be the text on the remaining button.)
Several sets of questions are available here for download, but the program will really serve you well if you to set up your own question sets, comprising the things you need to learn. Nothing could be simpler: You merely put a bunch of bitmap (extension bmp) files in a folder, naming each image as you want the label to appear on the button. The bitmaps should be 250 pixels high, no more than 680 pixels wide.
Once you have that, you just unzip the contents of the zip file to the folder of your choice, and it is "set up". Just invoke the MGA27 .exe file, and the application runs... MGA27.exe is the application, not a "setup" program.
Alternative, additional data sets demonstrating the program's usefulness:
In the case of most of the following, you just download a self extracting file created with WinZip by clicking on the heading for the demo set you want. When you run the file, all it will do is put some .BMP files in the folder of your choice. In the case of the ones below the line saying "Zips below here", they are simple zip archives. Move the contents to the folder of your choice.
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If you would like to make a similar sets of .BMPs or .JPGs available to people, send me your URL and I would be glad to publicize what you have done. Images should no more than 200 pixels high, no more than 380 pixels wide are best, but the program can cope with other sizes. The aspect ratio doesn't matter. The names of the .BMPs or .JPGs will determine what appears on the buttons MGA27 generates for the user to click to say what the current image is. the name can be up to about 64 characters long, can include hyphens and periods ('dots'... like.this), and underscores, but not commas, colons or semicolons.
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