Our development environment
All of this discussion about behavior and psychology could cause us to lose sight of our goal here. The goal is to build a gamified e-learning application. To that end, we will need to set up our environment to build our application.
To build our application we will need a few pieces in place. We will need:
A web server (Apache)
Server-side technology (PHP)
A database (MySQL)
Client-side technology (JQuery)
A text editor (Notepad++)
We need a web server to host and test our application. We will use the open source web server Apache. We will use Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), which will run on the Apache web server to generate the HTML for our pages. We will store and access the data needed for our application on the open source database MySQL. We will primarily use JavaScript to interact with the player on the client (that is, the browser). We will primarily use the JQuery JavaScript framework. Lastly we need a plain text editor. There are several free and paid versions...
