How to build a simple javascript quiz

Part 1

In this series we will look at employing some of the basic skills you have learned
on this blog, by building a simple quiz.

You will set up the page using html and css, before adding javascript at the end to
provide the interactive features needed on a quiz of this kind.

You should find this series useful as you will get the opportunity to practice some basic
web design skills while at the same time learning some extra tags. And as always at
Computabrowsa, we will make sure to keep everything as simple as possible so that you too will
be able to build the working example of what is being built.

Example of the finished product:

1. How many points does a triagnle have?

2. How many players are there in a soccer team?

3. How many moons does the earth have?

Great tutorials website

The New Boston

Try The New Boston for a great variety of free high quality tutorials. It's hard to find any sites that are better for variety. Nice and simple for beginners too.

Here's the link: The New Boston

Reverse Engineering the Brain

Here's an interesting story from the BBC website.

IBM have developed a microprocessor which, it is claimed, is the closest an artificiallly built mechanism has come to mimicing the behaviour of a brain synapse.

Apparently our brain learns by forming connections which grow stronger over time based on our experiences. The smart thing about the brain in effect, is that it knows which connections to ignore, and which to pay more attention to.

IBM claim to have an algorithm which knows which experiences to ignore and which to pay attention to - much as the brain does.

Anyway, the article explains it much better than I can, here's the link: Computer chip brain article

Is this the start of more intelligent computers as opposed to just number crunchers?