Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery电子书

Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery

Table of Contents

Build Gamified Websites with PHP and jQuery

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Gamifying the Educational Process

What exactly is gamification?

Schools using gamification

History of gamification in education

Monopoly Academy

Khan Academy

Spongelab

Youtopia

Quest2Learn

World of Classcraft

Gamification in universities

The future of gamification in education

Gamification in the classroom

Having fun at school

Summary

2. The Framework

Business objectives

Target behaviors

Players

Activity loops

Progression loops

Fun

Tools

Account creation screen

Summary

3. Objectives and Target Behavior

Fogg behavioral model

Motivation

Ability

Triggers

Triggers in our application

Increasing our players' ability

Motivating our players

Identify internal and external triggers

Intended action

Variable reward

Our development environment

Installing a LAMP stack

Troubleshooting the WAMP server setup

Summary

4. The Players

Bartle Test of Gamer Psychology

Killers

Leaderboards

Rewards for defending and critiquing posts

Achievers

Badges

Leveling/progress

Challenges

Socializers

Explorers

Our players

Creating the MySQL database

Creating our tables

Summary

5. Activity

Pyramid of game elements

Gamification toolbox – better than PBLs

The VuPoint application

jQuery

Vupoint.js

Index.html

The Home page

Account Creation Page

Validate the form

Writing a new account to the database

The Login Page

Main page view

Summary

6. The Fun

Intrinsic versus extrinsic behavior

What makes "fun" fun?

The player's experience

Competency

Autonomy

Relatedness

The Scoring module

AjaxHandler.php

The Achievement module

The Leaderboard module

Players currently online

Summary

7. The Wrap Up

Just the beginning

Third party plugins

Gigya plugins

Badgeville

More resources

Gamification

PHP

MySQL

jQuery

A. Tables

Engagement loops (Table A – 1)

Player type: Killer

Player type: Achiever

Player type: Socializer

Player type: Explorer

Gamification design matrix (Table A – 2)

Index