SFBdragon/woordeskat

Console app to improve your Afrikaans vocab. # woordeskat Console app to improve your Afrikaans vocabulary. This app will test you on Afrikaans to English translations and vice versa on common Afrikaans words and vocabulary related to the essay topics of AS 2021 Afrikaans as a second language syllabus (and more). It will tetest you on vocabulary you get wrong in order to aid memorization. It also uses the levenshtein string distance algorithm so that if you're only a single letter off, it will accept your answer (this is helpful for special characters, for instance). Please note that while I've spent a lot of time cleaning up the database, it still likely has numerous errors, and could always be improved or added to (see below if you'd like to contribute). Thanks to Matthew for helping me with some of the cleanup process. NB: I will be adding to the database often (the current version in the releases is almost certainly not up-to-date). In order to update your woordeskat database (highly recommended), access the 'wsdb.txt' file above, and copy the contents (display raw view (button), ctrl+a then ctrl+c: to copy all) into the 'wsdb.txt' file in the folder you download (ctrl+a then ctrl+v: to paste over all). For those unaquainted with Consoles/Github/Rust dev/etc: 1. Head over to the right/down and locate the 'Releases' section. 2. Click on the latest release or the 'Releases' section. 3. Click on the link therein to download woordeskat_uncoloured.zip 4. Extract the files once downloaded 5. Update `wsdb.txt` (recommended, see above) 6. Double click woordeskat.exe 7. If you experience any problems, please let me know. A general guide for tinkerers: - There is a 'colored' and an 'uncolored' version of the app. The former requires a modern terminal emulator to render to text in colour properly (`cmd.exe` and builtin `powershell.exe` are not modern enough, I recommend Windows Terminal). The latter version will work with anything. - The `wsdb.txt` file is a database with all the translations. It probably still …