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#33 Flash Cards

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of learning that requires memorization and drill. I still remember the hours I spent typing up 3×5-inch cards with my weekly French vocabulary on them.

The system I used was to go through each word one at a time. If I got the word right, the flash card was set aside. Get it wrong and the card went to the back of the stack so I could try again later.

I got pretty good at learning my French vocabulary. Unfortunately, after I passed the weekly quiz, I got good at forgetting things as well.

This script automates the process I went through with my 3×5-inch cards and gives the user a vocabulary drill.

The Code

 1 use strict; 2 use warnings; 3 4 # 5 # perl lang.pl <flash file> 6 # 7 # File format: ...