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J2ME MIDP Vocabulary Testing MIDlet
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	Update as of 11/9/08:
		I wrote this code five years ago when I was learning Java/MIDP. It's pretty awful. 
		I can't recommend it as an example for anyone to follow!
		I'm bunging it onto SourceForge because I am now trying to learn French; it might be useful if I fix 
		some of the bugs and you never know, someone else might find it useful too.
		The app is currently totally dysfunctional and not good enough to be useful.
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Version 1.0.0
Copyright Adrian Taylor, May 7th 2003.

Introduction
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This MIDlet should enable you to test yourself on vocabulary when learning any language. Features include:

-- Multiple-choice selection of answers from a random list
-- Unicode support
-- Import of vocabulary over HTTP from a website
-- Inputting of vocabulary by hand on the device

It's released under the GPL (see the file, COPYING, included). Please send any improvements to me (see TODO.txt for things I have in mind).

Why?
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I've written this for two reasons:
-- to test myself on Japanese (hence the multiple-choice selection, as my phone doesn't support Japanese text input)
-- to learn J2ME.

As it happens my phone also supports PersonalJava, which in retrospect would have been much easier! But this at least has the advantage it should run on many phones.

Requirements:
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Any J2ME MIDP 1.0-compatible phone should run this.
All vocabulary is stored in RAM, and in a fairly inefficient way too. Expect this programme to use lots of memory, and hence probably not fit on small phones.

Have fun!

Adrian Taylor