coding challenge idea

[Marielle Lange]

Dear Michael,

> My son enjoyed looking for words in word-search puzzles, and they  
> seemed like a good learning tool that could be made better with  
> some extra levels of interaction. A word search-based language and  
> spelling tool might make a good coding challenge and group project.  
> I started to make one a few years ago and there seemed to be plenty  
> of scope for using Revolution's strengths. The end result might be  
> a good gift for primary schools.

I like the idea... In the attach, you will find java code to do so.  
Taken from: http://usinaquiz.free.fr/indexjeu.htm

If you manage french well enough, there are free to reuse and  
sometimes opensource code for all sorts of education games.  If you  
don't know any french, here is a quick index: mot mêlés = wordsearch,  
mots croisé = crossword, pendu = hangman, associer= associate, texte  
a trou = text with wholes). For each game, you can download the code  
or source (click on the télécharger icon; télécharger = download)

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I really invite you to add this to the project page... <http:// 
revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=RevolutionProjects>

For list of words and so on, feel free to use:
<http://lexicall.org/repository/listing.php? 
material=data&language=english>

For instance, you will find there a database of early kid  
vocabulary:  Children's - Stuart et al. (2003). I have more such  
resources on my computer (I am a psycholinguist, specialized in  
single word recognition :-)) )

Clicking on the small form-like icon will pop a form that you can use  
to query a word with some characteristics. For instance, words of a  
given length, words of a given spelling using regular expression (you  
may have come across that term in revolution... very useful for  
crosswords, you can find all the words with the letters r.v.l.t..n --  
where "." stands for any letter).

Marielle