Hi, there.
If you are coming across this blog for the first time, don’t be surprised,
because I just created it a while ago. But I promise you it will benefit you if
you stop by more often from now on.
My name is Peter Lu, a father of three daughters. My youngest
one, Olivia is a first grade student; Wendy is heading off to college next year; and Fan is working on her PhD in politics science in UC Davis . Almost as long as I have been a father, I
have been working in the software development business.
Taking on these two 2 roles offered me opportunities to become both a better software application professional and a better
parent. When Fan was born, I got her a wet diaper notification device;
and when she was in elementary school, I got her a PC Ten/Ten Tutor as her extra homework; When Wendy was old enough to learn math, I wrote her a web based
math flash card app for her to practice math; when Olivia was born,
I wrote her an app to record her daily milk intake and discharges.
About a year ago, I wrote Olivia two window
desktop apps. One is for spelling
practice and the other one for math practice. She likes them and I would venture to say that she would
not do as well as she is doing now in her study without these apps. One day at dinner
table, my wife said to me “Peter, these apps do help our daughter a lot in her
study. I think it would be great if you can make these apps available to other children in the U.S. and maybe even around the global.” I thought
that was a great idea.
Inspired by her idea, I started writing these apps in
Window store app and plan to make them available at a very low price. Well, after many late nights and weekends, my first window store app, Spelling Champion is
about to be released. The second one is still under construction. Of
cause, it would be called Math Champion!
Spelling Champion is an app that runs in both Intel base OS and
ARM base OS. As long as you have a window 8 device, you are set. ( windows 8.1 is a free upgrade to Windows 8.0)
Spelling Champion provides spelling practice for all alphabetic languages and provides multilingual support for native language. If your native language is Japanese, France or Chinese, and you want to practice spelling for English or German, you will be able to do so with Spelling Champion.
Thanks to offline Text To Speech (TTS) technology offered by
Microsoft Window 8.1, Spelling Champion is able to let you choose words you want to practice
with, and do your spelling practice even when the device is not connected to
internet.
Depending on response, I will continue developing modules for elementary and middle school students and make these available for downloading at very low price or free. The High Frequency Words serials with be provided for free. Complete Spelling serials will be provided at very low price. I also have plans to develop vocabulary modules in other languages, and make them available for purchase at very low price.
Again, depends on response, I will make app support additional
languages as native language. You also
can participate in the process by offering help in translation.
You also can participate in this effort by providing modules in other languages and for other purpose. You can submit your module to me, and decide the price you want to sell or for free download. After reviewing, approved modules will be available for download or for purchase. At the same time, I will continue enhance the app by adding more useful features and making it more user friendly to you and become your companion in your language study.
If you are a parent like me and want to help your child in language study, go to windows app store and search for Spelling Champion. If you are preparing to take the TOEFL, SAT or GRE exam and wanting to improve your verbal scores, go to the window app store and search for Spelling Champion.
If you have any suggestions, feedbacks on the Spelling
Champion, please feel free to drop me a note in my blog. I will try my best to
make your experience with the app an enjoyable one and incorporate your suggestions
into the future release of the product.
Keep tuning in, once the Spelling Champion passed Microsoft App store review and is available in the app store, I will let you know as soon as I am notified by Microsoft.
Enjoy it and hope to hear from you soon.
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