Hi Gordon,
I think this was Patrick's first attempt at coding in Javascript so I'm sure it's not up to your standard but it fixes a problem with the original WebRubarb. In the original, if a student types any kind of punctuation mark - full stops, commas, question marks, etc. they're counted as errors and students lose points.
Patrick made two variants on WebRhubarb which I find pedagogically very useful for language learners:
- Only the vowels are removed, the consonants remain.
- No freebies. When the first "the" is typed, all the "the"s in the text do not appear.Each word has to be typed.
I use WebRhubarb mainly for dictation-like exercises and these modifications make it (almost) perfect for that.
Yes, no urgency whatever.
Cheers,
Glenys