General and Extra Practice Exams now up!

[dolphus]

Good Morning!

All three practice exams are now available at:


http://copaseticflow.blogspot.com/2008/10/amateur-radio-license-exam-practice.html

I hope they're handy!

73,
KD0FNR

[Paul Guido]

Very nice,

 

What inspired you to write the interface?

 

Paul Guido, N5IUT

[dolphus]

Thanks! A few different factors inspired the interface. I used to be
an advanced license holder, but let it expire back in 2002, so I found
myself practicing the exams again, (I'm back up to my general ticket
now). As I studied, I was doing online research to find and
understand the answers to the exam questions. I thought it would be
cool if everyone that practiced an exam could benefit from the
research of others that had studied before them. To that end, I added
the study material links section.

Those are the pragmatic factors. Then, there are the engineering
factors! Google introduced a free JavaScript API that allows Google
Docs spreadsheets to be queried like databases. It's a slick little
gadget. You can read more about it at:

http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/

They also introduced the capability to insert data into spreadsheets
using HTML forms. So, with a little HTML and JavaScript hacking they
provided a free interactive web based database application platform.

I'm always trying to think of applications that can be built and
served for free using the technology and this seemed like a perfect
fit.

73,
Hamilton Carter KD0FNR

On Oct 31, 8:17 am, "Paul Guido" <radioteac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Very nice,
>
> What inspired you to write the interface?
>
> Paul Guido, N5IUT
>

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:38 AM, dolphus <hcarter...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Good Morning!
>
> > All three practice exams are now available at:
>

> >http://copaseticflow.blogspot.com/2008/10/amateur-radio-license-exam-...