build status: master , dev

What is this?

This software is intended to alleviate preparation for a language test, such as IELTS, or facilitate common English knowledge development.

Main concept

Main idea is to use your own Saved translations as a dictionary. Thus having a dataset of most common / important words just for you, and checking your progress in learning them.

Usage steps

Prepare your dataset

• go to Google Translate
• click on a star (Saved Translations)
• export it to Google Sheets by clicking Sheets icon on the right tab
• go to Google Sheets
• configure Access for exported document to be Anybody who has a link

Launch instructions

• dependencies: POSIX + GTK3, curl, Berkeley DB, optional clang for source compilation
• install dependencies on Mac: brew install gtk+3 libcurl berkeley-db
• for compilation from source, clone the tree and use make clean && make build
• for binary download, download one for your platform in bin/
• launch with -g key to activate GUI

First launch

• copy spreadsheet key (the part behind /d/ and ahead of /edit in the URL)
• copy shpreadsheet ID (digits after gid=)
• enter these values in the welcome screen
• hit Enter on either entry - this will sync the Spreadsheet to the local database (location: <home directory>/.tiny-ielts./db)

...then

• after that, and on subsequent launches, you will see the Main screen, which will display a random word from the database and an entry for a translation
• after two incorrect translation submissions, you will see a hint
• after five incorrect submissions, you will see the right answer and a field for a sentence for you to compose with the original word
• you can hit Next button at any time to pick different word

YouTube screen-recorded demo

To re-initialize or remove application data

• remove <home directory>/.tiny-ielts directory

TODO

• Implement remove from DB right click context option
• Implement about right click context option
• Implement a browser of saved sentences database with scroll/pagination, sentence removal option and search entry
• Implement menu for statistics of translation & sentence DBs, such as # of entries and file size