up to John Chew's Software Archive
qz Home Page
qz is a quiz program written in Perl, which therefore runs
on Macs, Unix systems, VMS systems and even DOS PCs. I wrote it to help
me study Scrabble words, but it's flexible enough to be used for many
other applications. You can configure qz to concentrate on
questions that you have historically had difficulty, questions that you
haven't seen in a long time, questions randomly drawn according to a
dynamic difficulty estimate, or questions that you've answered
incorrectly recently. It doesn't have a pretty user interface though
-- if that's a must for you, then try
Zyzzyva.
What's Available
- help
- step-by-step instructions on how to get started with qz
- qz.pl
- the quiz script itself
- sample.qz
- a sample quiz script
- notes.txt
- 3 MB annotation file for quiz answers
- quiz files
- Various quiz files of interest to Scrabble players
- history
- a change log, in case you're wondering what's new in the latest rev
- update.pl
- a script to convert version one quiz files to version two files
If you haven't configured your browser to download Perl or qz files correctly,
some of these files may be garbled. You can also download copies of these
files that are identified as text files, and then rename them:
qz.pl,
sample.txt,
update.txt.