Question: I'm building a project that I think is a little like TiddlyWiki. Where should I start?

a robot made out of meat — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:09:17 -0800

I'm building a project that I think is a little like TiddlyWiki. Where should I start?

So I'm building a project who's goal is to take a smallish (<10mb) database of questions which are currently xml tags, take some options, and make an html/js test for the user. They'd mark their answers and proceed through the test. The application stores their answer sequence. When they're done, it compares to the correct answers, and offers to show them explanations (which are already marked up and included in the small database).

While I was coming up with exact specifications, it occurred to me that a similar set of behaviors (from stored data create/display pages, store similar information in self all from within a single html) exists in TiddlyWiki, which is open source javascript. Writing the backend functions that I want is mostly trivial; the finished product pretty tough since I've never had to deal with CSS or made front-ends for the web. Since this is a pet project, it doesn't have to be perfect code when I give up. I'm working though the code in TiddlyWiki and looking at the Dev page but feel that the working of TiddlyWiki is way overkill on what I need to do.

The question: are there other well-documented simply-constructed open-source projects that I should be looking at for guidance on this project? I feel that with a few well-annotated examples I could figure it out easily.

Thanks all.

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