Marqtholomew

Lately I’ve been working on a web-based application for creating and sharing quizzes, using Google App Engine. Tammy and I took a UNIX class over the summer, and I wrote the program so we could prepare for our final exam, but I had other uses in mind for it, primarily that of a means of keeping aviation knowledge fresh in my mind. It was also a good excuse to learn a new development framework, and served as something fun to build.

The app is called quizlink, and it is available at quizlink.appspot.com. You have to login to your google account to use it, since it keeps track of your scores and your responses to each question, so you can review what you need to improve on. Only you have access to your scores, and you can delete old sessions if you don’t want to look at them any more. You can make your own quizzes, and when you think other people could benefit from one of your quizzes, you can publish it to a public directory where others can take it. You can also make comments on questions if want to challenge the answer or make a correction; the comment will appear on the quiz author’s main page. There’s also an “auto quiz” which will ask you questions from your various quizzes. It’s pretty basic stuff, and is a pretty minimal user interface, since I’m not much into web design.

I’ve been working on some aviation-related quizzes, and Tammy made one on music history. Feel free to create and share your own quizzes (please don’t publish “test” quizzes though). The code is in python (as all GAE apps are), and is available on google code.