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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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Mac Dictionary Primer Tutorial

Are you ever stuck for a word, or a word with the same meaning as some other word? … you need a dictionary, or a thesaurus. If you are on a Mac laptop, try the desktop application Dictionary, as shown … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript Spelling Game Tutorial

Do you like word games? Today’s game tests your spelling skills in English. It uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server. Maybe it would be a good game to learn English vocabulary. Programmers often use … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript Can You See Any Words Game Tutorial

Do you like word games? Today’s game takes 81 randomly generated letters in a 9×9 grid and asks you to make as many words from its letters as you can that are unique and 3 or more characters long which … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript Words Within Words Game Tutorial

Do you like word games? Today’s game takes a randomly generated word and asks you to make as many words from its letters as you can that are 4 or more characters long and are not the original word … … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript Hangman Game Tutorial

Do you like word games? Today’s game is well known to lots of people … Hangman. It uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server. Maybe it would be a good game to learn English vocabulary. … Continue reading

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Xcode Objective-C Mutable Dictionary Primer Tutorial

Have you heard of Objective-C? It is a great object-oriented programming language that builds that object orientation on top of a C programming base. Sounds good (even better than good), and Objective-C is the language of iOS Mobile Apps, so … Continue reading

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