New Django App: German-Swedish Dictionary

As I wrote in my previous post, I’m currently busy learning Swedish. One result of this endeavour is an ever growing collection of swedish words in my vocabulary program. And because there is no really usable online dictionary for swedish and german, I decided to put my collection online, in the form of a very simple web application.

The dictionary is of course by no means comprehensive - it’s just my private collection of words and expressions. I tried to follow some rules when entering the words, and I plan on extending the dictionary as my learning progresses (and I read more books).

There’s exactly one feature: searching for words. The search term is matched against all swedish and german words in the dictionary. The results are shown in a table. The whole thing is somewhat unnecessarily AJAX-powered (using jQuery).

As always, it was fun to develop using Django, and I’m still getting faster. The dictionary is really a very small application, with just one model, but still - about four days from idea to installation aren’t too bad (of course only using my spare time).

Maybe someone out there is going to find my dictionary useful. I’d be happy for any comments, suggestions or corrections.