From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:54:07 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Penalize an incorrect item down to a score of -2
X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=mnemon;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a17d20706351f3c614017eda7b24fd3675fa104

Penalize an incorrect item down to a score of -2
---

diff --git a/mnemon.c b/mnemon.c
index 9f28dfe..920f548 100644
--- a/mnemon.c
+++ b/mnemon.c
@@ -708,14 +708,19 @@ mnemon_do_challenges (mnemon_t *mnemon,
 	} else {
 	    printf ("  %s is the correct answer.",
 		    item->response);
-	    if (item->score >= 0)
-		unlearned++;
-	    item->score--;
 	    /* Penalize an incorrect response by forcing the score
 	     * negative. */
 	    if (item->score >= 0) {
-		item->score = -1;
-		printf ( " Oops, you knew that, right?\n ");
+		if (item->score > 0)
+		    printf ( " Oops, you knew that, right?\n ");
+		unlearned++;
+		/* We go to -2 to force a little extra reinforcement
+		 * when re-learning an item, (otherwise, it will often
+		 * get asked again immediately where it is easy to get
+		 * a correct response without any learning). */
+		item->score = -2;
+	    } else {
+		item->score--;
 	    }
 	}