Author here.<p>I found myself wanting to learn more about history/culture/politics/etc of more countries throughout the world, so I built a little web app that provides you with one country to learn about each day.<p>The information provided is intended to just be a starting point; I see the using this as a study guide.<p>Any feedback is welcome. This is the first personal project that I've shipped!<p>Edit: I hope you guys don't mind if I add a personal plug. I'm not a full time web developer, and I would very much like to be (I currently design and maintain safety systems for commuter transit). I'm especially interested in Ruby/Rails, but I can generally pick anything up quickly. If anyone would be willing to help me out (advice, job recommendations, resume tips, etc) I would be very grateful. My email can be found in my profile.
This looks neat. Here is how discover the world online.<p>- I start with some travel show or a foodalogue to see what people look like there, what is their ethnic makeup, what do they eat, how rich/happy are they, how advanced is their society. I would probably watch gordon ramsey's kitchen nightmares to get the first glace at britain.<p>- then I watch something about the current affairs of the country. Putin's russia ( Aljazeera documentary) /Khodorkovsky on netflix<p>- Read a book or two , both fiction and non fiction. Russia: Snowdrops (Fiction) , Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin.<p>- Then I dig deeper and try to see how the people there got to be like what they are now. Eg: Battle of Russia on Fandor, National Geographic's Engineering an empire( Russia).
The CIA The World Factbook [1] is also really cool. Just pick and country and away you go.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/</a>
Consider meshing in the facts from the CIA's Worldbook -<p><a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/</a> ?
I like the idea and intent.<p>However, why have you broken the back button? This should <i>never</i> be allowed to happen except in very carefully decided situations (say, preventing a user from going backward in a workflow that could provide undesired results).<p>Is this intentional or an accident?
Nice! Also if anyone wants to learn the world capitals, I'm working on user-friendly spaced repetition software to do just that:<p><a href="http://cardflashapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://cardflashapp.com</a><p>It's still very alpha, but I was able to learn all the world and US state capitals in just a few sessions.
I'd find this useful if you sent an email every other day. The short text on the first country Namibia was interesting and about as much as I have time to read on a near-daily interest-email. I didn't sign up as I don't have the time but I'm interested to learn.
I had an idea for something similar awhile back. I love learning about places I haven't been before and I especially enjoy looking at those places on a map.<p>I'll have to play with it more before I can give you any feedback.
I don't like being redirected to Wikipedia on read more. When you do that, there is good chance that visitor is not coming back. I think you should display rest of the content on your site as well.
This is a really neat idea. It also gives me a few ideas for iOS apps. Gamifying and speeding up the learning process is crucial to teaching this generation new things. Thanks for building this.
wow this is so awesome for a omnivorous compulsive reader like myself. I've actually never been this excited about a show hen before! thanks for making this!