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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)
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