How do I make "flash cards" on the computer?

[ryudo]

I'm studying for an exam. I want to be able to make "flash cards" or their computer equivalent - basically a series of a question and an answer.

I thought about doing it on Powerpoint - one slide a question, the one that follows the answer. While this is good, I want to be able to "shuffle" or randomize the question/answer pairs. I can't do this with Powerpoint.

Is there better software with which to do this? Is database software the way to go (I have no idea how to use it). Anything else?

 

[SonnyDaze]

What are you studying for? Is it a lot of info? I've found that using 3x5 cards and writing out the question followed by the answer always helps me better. But I guess you could just try to make a PP presentation with the Q & A's.......You could do one slide per question. First the question and than you'd have to hit the mouse to show the answer (If you could get both Q & A on one slide).

 

[Gautama2]

I saw a website that used a flash engine to make them for you...Sadly, I can't remember it.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Download.com or TuCows can probably find you 1,000 cheap or freeware programs.

I'm partial to this one, possibly because I was the lead developer : www.respondus.com - StudyMate
(It costs money, but you could use the 30-day trial.)

 

[redgtxdi]

Echo Sunny Daze's comments.


We tend to remember things we write much better than almost any other method.

May serve dual purpose to actually make 'em by hand!!

 

[ryudo]

Doing it by hand is certainly a possibility, but I will have perhaps thousands of question/answer pairs, and I type a lot faster than I write.

PPT is also an option, but like I said, I wouldn't be able to 'shuffle' the questions.

 

[WildHorse]

If you have the popular TI-84+ Silver Ed. calculator, as is very common among students,

then you can download the free tistudycardscreator.exe
from ticalc.org
that makes flashcards right inside your calculator & displays them on its screen.


For your desktop computer, look at this list of stuff on Tucows, and notice that there are 149 listings spanning many pages.

 

[IronWing]

Just be sure that whichever route you take, you don't spend more time messing with setting up the flash cards than studying the material for your exam.

 

[BeauJangles]

I use WordQuiz... it's free and generates .csv files so you aren't tied to it if you want to switch.

edit: http://peterandlinda.com/wordquiz/index.php