grolprep

Synopsis

FCC GROL exam prep web application (Haskell)

Description

grolprep is a web application for studying the FCC GROL questions in preparation of taking the exams.

This is a flash-card style study tool. Students can choose from Elements 1, 3 and 8 and can specify any subelement of those three for specific study. Questions and answers can be randomly presented. grolprep displays the images for questions with figures.

Additionally, simulations of the randomly-chosen exams can be practiced with this software.

The source test data questions can be acquired from the FCC Commercial Operator License site.

grolprep is written in Haskell using many libraries including: cgi, Crypto, HDBC-sqlite3, hslogger, HTTP, split, xhtml. At this time, no special web framework was used, just Network.CGI and Text.XHtml

Getting source

• Get the source with darcs: $ darcs get http://hub.darcs.net/dino/grolprep
• If you're just looking, browse the source

And once you have it, building the usual way:

$ stack build
$ stack test

Installation

To install, a script is included, run it with --help for more info

$ cd /dir/containing/grolprep/source
$ ./util/install.hs

Installation defaults to /var/www/grolprep-x.y.z. After first-time installation, you will need to copy /var/www/grolprep.../resources/grolprep.conf to /etc/ and make it readable by the web server group or user. To use the feedback facility, reCAPTCHA keys will need to be added to this config file.

Runtime data (user sessions and feedback messages) is stored in /var/local/grolprep. This directory will need to be created ahead of time and permissions set as with grolprep.conf

Using the web application

Visit the live site and start studying!

Contact

Dino Morelli <dino@ui3.info>