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Re: Logicola 3

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Dear @meibo, I appreciate your feedback! I'll work on redesigning it to make it feel less commercial and more true to the original while accessible to more students.

Re: Logicola 3

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Dear @meibo, I appreciate your feedback! I'll work on redesigning it to make it feel less commercial and more true to the original while accessible to more students.

Don't take me too seriously, making this stuff more accessible is a noble cause :)

Re: Logicola 3

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I'm taking one of the tests and the feedback seems strange: although it appears I got it right, because the selected answer turns green, many of the other answers turn red (which usually indicates a failure) and other unselected answers also turn green. It's confusing.

Re: Logicola 3

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Who is owner of the logicola name? Is it trademarked and do you have permission from the publisher/family of the original author?

Also, on the front page there is a link to logicola.com, which is a typo, I think.

Finally, I'm using ff on windows with a screen reader and when I press the chapters button on the web page, absolutely nothing happens, so it is not clear how I'm supposed to test the website.

Re: Logicola 3

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Dear @meibo, I appreciate your feedback! I'll work on redesigning it to make it feel less commercial and more true to the original while accessible to more students.

Don't take me too seriously, making this stuff more accessible is a noble cause :)

Your take resonated with me, as did your response to the author.

Making the port look modern by using a modern look makes tons of sense. The soul sucking feeling it produces comes from the modern look's motivations, which is not the author's fault alone, but instead from the 'market and sell everything' era we current live within.

Everyone is right here, it is circumstances that are disappointing.

Re: Logicola 3

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I used that! The DOS version. In college at University of Cincinnati. I actually forget what class it was. Some maths I think.

This was in the late 90s / early 2000s so well past the DOS era but old DOS apps were still in use here and there (and would still run on Windows).

Re: Logicola 3

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You may want to check how you normalize or distinguish the logical representations. On the propositional logic quiz I'm presented with choices like these:

  (R ^ L) v N     G) v H)  G) v H   
These pairs are the same, the extra parentheses don't change the meaning of the statements but only the ones with the extra parentheses are marked as correct.

Re: Logicola 3

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Who is owner of the logicola name? Is it trademarked and do you have permission from the publisher/family of the original author? Also, on the front page there is a link to logicola.com, which is a typo, I think. Finally, I'm using ff on windows with a screen reader and when I press the chapters button on the web page, absolutely nothing happens, so it is not clear how I'm supposed to test the website.

The button appears to be hover only, which bad. On top of that, it expands content down to show the chapters, but if you move over and then down (instead of down then over), you exit the hover area and it closes. There are no visual indications of the boundaries of the hover area.
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