ninagial / flashcards

Python script to practice decks of flashcards.

Flashcards Script

A Python script to practice decks of Flashcards.

Usage

Clone the repository and navigate into the directory.

Then:

python script.py --deck="japanese"

python script.py --deck="japanese" --nitems=3

python script.py --deck="japanese" --nitems=3 --shuffle

python script.py --deck="japanese" --reverse

Omitting early entries

You'll probably find yourself reviewing time and again the early stuff when you want to move on to new material. To ignore earlier entries, do this:

python script.py --deck="japanese" --start=3 --nitems=3

This will start on the fourth item and use another three items afer that. You can combine this with the other flags.

Specifying a separate lookup Deck

Pressing l (as in Lama) when prompted after each trial will look up the current term in the current Deck. However, you may want to look it up in another deck. Specify this as follows:

python script.py --deck="numbers" --lookupdeck="japanese"

Or equivalently:

python script.py --d="numbers" --ld="japanese"

After trial commands

l will look up the current term in the Lookup Deck.

x will only work after a failed trial, and remove the last term entered in the Revision Deck (eg when the trial failed because of a typo or sth).

q will quit the current Deck.

Other Options

Adding --reverse will present the words the other way round.

Adding --shuffle will present the words in random order.

Adding your own material

Right now, you have to do this manually.

In the file matter.py you will find a dictionary named decks.

In each Deck you will find a list of Pair(a, b) objects.

Modify this in order to add your own learning material.

Tags

Pairs in matter.py can be tagged like this:

Pair('January', 'itsigatsu', tags = ['months'])

It is not necessary to use semantic tags. For instance lesson 1 might come in handy, if you just want to organize the subject matter to more manageable sections.

Consult the code in matter.py for an example. This line however does that quickly, if you are font of list comprehension

decks["numbers"] = Deck('Numbers', items = [Pair(pair.a, pair.b, tags=['numbers']) for pair in decks["japanese"].items if pair.a in ('one', 'two')])

Either way, when you have a Deck with tagged items, you can use:

decks["counters"] = Deck('Counters', items = decks["numbers"].filter_tags('counters'))

Then use python script.py -d="counters" as expected.

Look up terms when not practicing

For this you have to start a python REPL, ie it is only usable in the command line.

python
from classes import *
from matter import *

# how you say 'unification' in Japanese??
decks["japanese"].lookup('unification')