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Paint App in Android
Recently I was learning about Canvas and Custom views in Android and to put the theory in practice I made a pretty simple Paint App. Source code of the app can be found https://github.com/priyankvex/Paint-App-Android. The App is pretty simple with features 1. Create Drawings (Obvious one :P). 2. Select different brush sizes. 3. Eraser with […]
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Rafa : Reading Experience
Here it is. 4th book of the year Rafa by Rafael Nadal and John Carlin. Being arguably the biggest Rafa fan on this planet this book was in my reading bucket list from a long time. Finally got the opportunity to read this. This is great in both sense, it gives you a more closer look […]
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Making an OCR app for Android using Tesseract.
Star on GitHub Recently I was playing with OCR library by google called as “Tesseract” (cool name for a library!). It was a fun experience. This post shows how you can make a simple OCR app in Android using Tesseract. We will be using Tess-Two a fork of Tesseract […]
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MIT 11.133x : Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology – Week 4 Sum Up
What is the final step after implementation of something? How to assess if something has worked or not? Whether it has achieved the claimed goals or not? The only proper way to get the answers to the questions like above is by properly evaluating the implementation. And this is what the final week of the course was […]
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How to build Tesseract OCR library for Android Studio?
Star On GitHub If you ever tried to create an OCR app for Android you must have stumbled upon the OCR library by Google Tesseract. And then the problems began. To use the library in your project you first need to build it. But building the library to be compatible with gradle, which is the new […]
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MIT 11.133x : Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology – Week 3 Sum Up
What does it take to implement a educational technology? You have the idea that can supposedly change the world of ed tech and learning, but how to implement it? Throughout the course, in the past 3 weeks I was constantly having my idea of creating an ed tech. With each passing week the course taught […]
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MIT 11.133x : Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology – Week 2 Sum Up
Here is it end of week 2 of 11.133x. And we are back with the sum up. This week was about many aspects that one should deal with while implementing an education technology, like deciding education technology framework, how to analyse a ed tech, technology buying process etc. This week started with TPACK. What is TPACK […]
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MIT 11.133x : Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology – Week 1 Sum Up
Here is it. End of week 1 of the course 11.133x. This week was a little more focused on educational technology. It covered various vital topics like : Stakeholders in ed tech. Evaluation and assessment. What makes a good ed tech? Future of teaching. Where to start with ed tech? Concept of SAMR. Stakeholders in […]
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The Passionate Programmer : Reading Experience
Here we go for the 3rd time. My 3rd book for 2015’s 10 book reading challenge is The Passionate Programmer. I picked this book from pragmatic programmer book shelf. All books listed there are awesome and are a must read. Anyways continuing with this book, it was an awesome reading experience. It was one of those […]
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MIT 11.133x : Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology – Week 0 Sum Up
This week I started with another MOOC by Edx “Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology”. It is a 5 weeks course going from week 0 to week 4. So here I will blog about my experiences with the course, each week. WEEK 0 There was not much in the course in week 0. You can guess […]