Hi there,
At 09:13 AM 28/06/2004, you wrote:
i wonder if you have one or two examples of hot potatoes in action that we might be able to take a look at?
There's a set of sample exercises from the tutorial for the programs here:
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/wintutor6/index.htm
These include multiple-choice, short-answer, gapfill, matching, crosswords and jumbled sentences, and there's a fair amount of interactivity in terms of showing feedback on user input, offering hints, scoring and so on. Another of our apps, Quandary, produces action mazes (branching decision trees) in a similar format:
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/version_2/examples/
You can View Source to see any of the JavaScript code; you'll see large blocks of JavaScript that's basically used to manipulate the page DOM to hide and show questions and answers, show responses, modify parts of the page, and so on.
Cheers, Martin
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