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Quidology Documentation

Planning

Rough draft of the GUI

Options Explored:

Java with JavaFX

Pros: Cons:
Java Desktop applications works “out-of-the-box” on many platforms Requires a lot more storage than something over the internet
Scene Builder is convinient to build UI Performance
CSS/FXML can seperate layout from logic Maturity, is not that developed, less resources online

ReactJS

Pros: Cons:
Reusable components Lack of documentation
Dynamic Requires learning a new language (JavaScript)
  Web apps don’t work without an Internet Connection

SQLite

Pros: Cons:
Affordable Restricted to 2GB for database size
Lightweight  
Works without internet and well for small datasets like the quiz quesions  

MySQL

Pros: Cons:
Scalable Expensive
High performance Requires server to run
  Needs internet to run

QuizController class:

Types of Questions:

  • Matching: maybe with cards?
    • 4 real questions match right answer with question?
      • Only short answer question ones
  • Multiple choice
    • Easiest one, just use the 4 options given
    • Vertical ABCD option under question
  • Short Answer
    • SELECT all in short answer column if short_answer = 1
    • TextField
  • True or false
    • Question format: Write question + “: “+answer
      • True or false radio button

General Logic:

  1. Similar to online form (vertical layout)
  2. Assign type of question id’s
  3. Then, random num generator to pick question type
  4. Select all ids for valid questions of that question type
  5. Put in array and randomly select index of array
  6. Call that id from table of questions
  7. Repeat 5 times for each question