Two New Features Coming Soon – Quizzes and Pseudo-Code Engine!
Hello everyone!
We’ve been making changes and adding new features galore. I thought I’d take this time to announce two new features that will be coming soon: Lesson Quizzes and a Pseudo-Code Engine!
Lesson Quizzes
I believe I mentioned this a while back, but it never was released. The quizzes will be out soon, hopefully before the end of December (if not much sooner).
The quizzes will be extensions of the lessons and are going to be designed to do three things:
- Test your knowledge – Check your knowledge about the basics of the lesson.
- Challenge your knowledge – Questions that will be difficult and require you to think.
- Make you think – There will be critical thinking questions which will make you take the basics and apply it in ways beyond the lesson itself.
And of course, this quizzes are going to be designed to be fun and entertaining. Some questions will be simple true/false or multiple choice questions. Others will be fill in the blank or short answer questions. There will also be at least one critical thinking question which will give you some type of real world scenario which you will have to think about and work out.
The multiple choice, true/false and fill in the blank questions will be graded automatically for you. The short answer and critical thinking questions will show you the correct answer (or answers, as is often the case) so you can compare yours.
You’ll also be able to track your progress and view answers you’ve said in the past (if you were logged in when you took the quiz).
Pseudo-Code Engine
In our programming section we use pseudo-code in all of our lessons. In the Javascript lessons, since we are using Javascript, you can easily write your own code and test it out. This can’t be done if you are following the programming lessons.
Soon however, that will all change. We’re working on a pseudo-code engine which will run right from your browser. It’ll allow you to type in pseudo-code and try out the code right there. It’ll only allow you to output text (at least in the beginning).
It won’t be practical, but it’ll be fun to play around with and should be a great learning tool. We may also create a Javascript version which will allow you to create and see the effects of your Javascript right from your browser as well.
Both of the features will likely come out about the same time. Both of them should be out no later than the end of this year! Look forward to them!
We’ll likely release them in a beta version before we call them actually released, so keep an eye out for them. We’d love to have tons of testers that’ll help us with improvements, bugs, suggestions, and just give us comments about what they think.
