Monthly Archives: January 2015

English Word Association Game Primer Tutorial

With yesterday’s Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial, using Yahoo Web Services called YQL, as shown below, building on previous ones here at this blog, we effectively signed off on the final (supplementing recent PHP/CSS Sentence Auxiliary Verb Game … Continue reading

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Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that might be re-introducing you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous ones here at this blog. The name is the way it is because it simplified the API aspects of its functionality … Continue reading

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PHP/CSS Sentence Auxiliary Verb Game Tutorial

The easiest English games to design are those that involve discrete words, because then dictionaries and thesauruses can be used. Learning English (for students whose first language is not English (ESL)) is obviously more useful when the student can piece … Continue reading

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Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Datasets Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that (just) might be re-introducing you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous YQL tutorials on this blog, building on previous Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Data Tutorial as shown below, but … Continue reading

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Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Data Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that (just) might be re-introducing you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous YQL tutorials on this blog, building on previous Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Country Tutorial as shown below, but … Continue reading

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Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Country Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that might be re-introducing you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous YQL tutorials on this blog, building on previous Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Social Mention Tutorial as shown below. The name … Continue reading

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Windows Onunload Event Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial looks at creating a Speed Reading game by using the “dreaded” window.onunload event … “dreaded” because so many websites have misused it to harrass users as they shape to leave a webpage with onunload event logic that makes … Continue reading

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CSS Style Display Primer Tutorial

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and … Continue reading

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