What I want to do is have a really basic program to test my knowledge of musical terms (eg allegro, largo etc).
The basics of the program would be:
- list of terms and their meanings (as defined by me)
- program pops up a term and asks me to enter a definition
- program checks definition I give with it's programmed definition
- tells me if I'm right or wrong
- keeps track of my score
- never asks the same term twice for each session it runs
I'm curious as to whether this is easily done and worth investing my time in. The reason I want to do this with a computer program rather than just trying to memorise is that, for example, I've got a spare 5 minutes at work, I can run 10 questions and test my memory. I might be able to find a spare 5 minutes here and there three or four times a day (and it can still look like I'm working
). It will make it easier to regularly keep up to date with terms rather than just dump memorising them in the too hard basket. Keeping a score each session would make it something of a game as well (a fairly lame game, but that's not the point...).Ideas/suggestions, anyone?
-s