E-Learning for Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers: HTML5 Alphabet Learning/Hand-Writing
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Next up in my little “E-Learning for Toddlers” series is this example which was extended/based (i.e. blatantly lifted) from the excellent “Stay-in-the-Letter” initial concept by Chris Heilmann which I saw on the Mozilla Hacks blog:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/06/building-a-simple-paint-game-with-html5-canvas-and-vanilla-javascript/
My pilfering of this little app concept was for solely and completely personal reasons for teaching my own son, as I simply wanted to see if I could extend it to support the main Japanese characters (hiragana/katakana, maybe even kanji at a later date) as well as extending the English alphabet which it was already designed for to also provide phonetical readings of each character (should work whether using in English or Japanese mode).
Lastly, I just wanted to add audible cues and feedback in order to provide a bit more of an interactive game feel. Most of the hard stuff was done by Chris, with only minor changes by me.
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Awesome work Chris!
Christian Heilmann
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