[OT] driver's license exam app?

[Omer Zak]

Hello Daniel,
Three years ago, I developed an Android application which does the same
thing [1].

I hoped to get more volunteers to polish and improve it, however there
was very little interest in it.

Nevertheless, it was a good way to tell the world that yes, I am an
Android developer.  I got other projects thanks to it (such as [2]).

So I suggest that you release your application but without expecting
anything from it beyond being a showcase of your software development
skills.

While you are it, I strongly urge you to split off the part of the code,
which deals with Hebrew terminals, and make it a library that people can
take and use in their own projects. Maybe you'll be able to contribute
to terminfo/ncurses projects.

--- Omer



[1] https://github.com/Hamakor/teuria
[2]
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heliconbooks.epub.epubreader


On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 01:24 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> I've got here a desktop app that quizzes the user with questions from
 <מבחן התיאוריה (the one people take when they learn driving).  It's
> basically a self-test/study app, using the questionset from the
> Ministry's web site.  (They publish questionsets in six languages,
> I only tried the Hebrew set.)
> 
> By "app" I mean a python script that prints questions to stdout, reads
> answers from stdin, and displays images by invoking display(1) [a
> minimal image viewer from imagemagick].  It doesn't have a GUI (beyond
> the image displayer) since my target audience didn't need one.
> 
> I can't release it as-is because $LEGAL_REASONS, but I could clean it up
> to make it releaseable.  Before I spend too much time on that, is that
> something anybody would be interested in?
> 
> [feel free to reply offlist]
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> P.S. It wasn't fun to get Hebrew to print correctly on all terminals:
> there are differently-behaving terminals that use the same value of
> $TERM (undermining terminfo-based solutions).  I ended up using
> $WINDOWID to get the terminal emulator's argv[0], and hardcoding
> exceptions based on that.  That's so 1990...
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