Saili stands for testing or assessment and is and open source application intended to be used by Kenya Certificate of Primary Education Candidates during preparation of their final examinations. Every thousands of students sit the KCPE exam and heavily rely on past papers for revision which most are hawked everywhere and some published in the newspaper. Saili is aiming to have the most comprehensive database of revision questions (over a million) complete with self testing for students and also printing sample test papers for teachers and schools in areas where access to information is limited. Anyone interested in the project can go to http://code.google.com/p/saili/ I settled with using Visual Basic 6 as its both fast on simple machines and accessible to majority of people and understood by many. Also the code can be converted easily to .net later on. The other language considered was Delphi/Pascal, unfortunately it may be difficult for most people to get their hands on a copy. I never considered Web based applications Internet accessibility is severely limited in the Kenyan context. Contributions need not be in form of code but can also be in the form of questions For more info go to http://code.google.com/p/saili/
Good stuff! Will def check it out. Kudos! On Sunday, May 15, 2011, Jacob Ayienda <jacobayienda@gmail.com> wrote:
Saili stands for testing or assessment and is and open source application intended to be used by Kenya Certificate of Primary Education Candidates during preparation of their final examinations.
Every thousands of students sit the KCPE exam and heavily rely on past papers for revision which most are hawked everywhere and some published in the newspaper. Saili is aiming to have the most comprehensive database of revision questions (over a million) complete with self testing for students and also printing sample test papers for teachers and schools in areas where access to information is limited.
Anyone interested in the project can go to http://code.google.com/p/saili/
I settled with using Visual Basic 6 as its both fast on simple machines and accessible to majority of people and understood by many. Also the code can be converted easily to .net later on.
The other language considered was Delphi/Pascal, unfortunately it may be difficult for most people to get their hands on a copy.
I never considered Web based applications Internet accessibility is severely limited in the Kenyan context.
Contributions need not be in form of code but can also be in the form of questions
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Jacob, Interesting stuff in deed. However, please do reconsider the web-based version as well. If you are serious about seeing national collaboration and use, it is the way to go. Remember, the internet might not have penetrated too deep today,..but it's penetration growth rate is far much greater than personal computers access growth rate. Thus, in the near future more people will have access to the internet with no PCs... Consider those thots. Regards, -- Davis.
I would like to participate. Why dont you fill me in at samjobo@gmail.com. Great Idea
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Davis Waithaka -
Jacob Ayienda -
Rad! -
Samuel Mwangi