Since my girl friend is a teacher I was confronted with an interesting task.
Determine the readability a website.
There a few indices out there (Fog, Flesch, Kincaid, and Frye) that use things like: syllables in a word, words in a sentence, and such.
Fortunately there is a module that does this already:
Lingua::EN::Fathom which builds on Lingua::EN::Syllable. So I just need to add in Frye's readability index to the module (must give the author that patch when I get it working), construct the sub that fetches the page, the sub that tries to rip out some representative text, and then run it through the black box. I probably should make it a Tk (or other GUI app for that matter) so that it's easy for students and teachers to use.
Of course, I need to finish writing that db search routine for work before I do that...
Interesting Task
CliffY on 2002-04-29T17:04:33
Since my girl friend is a teacher I was confronted with an interesting task. Your girlfriend presented me with an interesting task last night as well. She taught all of us a
number of new things.
Determine the readability a website. Maybe you should determine the readability of your own posts before judging others.
There a few indices out there (Fog, Flesch, Kincaid, and Frye) that use things like: syllables in a word, words in a sentence, and such.
Fortunately there is a module that does this already: Yeah, let others do the work for you. Slacker. And I don't wanna hear about Perl modules, code
reuse and all that crap. Hey, maybe there's a module to do your job, yeah found it: Lazy::Slacker
probably should make it a Tk (or other GUI app for that matter) so that it's easy for students and teachers to use. Better make it easy for the other short bussers too.
> Of course, I need to finish writing that db search routine for work before I do that...
We can all see how much effort you are putting into this "partner" thing at work.
-Cliff
