How can I make an online glossary?

Introduction

Hi everyone! My name is Maxime Gagné and welcome to my channel. I am 18 and currently studying Computer Science at Cégep de Sherbrooke. For those of you who aren't familiar with the program, it's basically where we learn the foundations of technology, from coding software to learning every math behind the code.

We all know that the tech world moves incredibly fast, and keeping up with all the new words is a challenge we all share.

Starting this program was a huge adjustment because of the massive amount of new technical words I had to learn every day.

I am now in my last semester, and while I’m really enjoying the program and finding the rhythm easier now, I know exactly how much work it takes to master this jargon.

My goal today is to show you how to build a personalized online glossary, so you can master these technical terms once and for all.

I want you to follow along with me, so you can start organizing your own technical knowledge base today.

You’ll be surprised at how efficiently you can learn complex concepts and debug your code when you have everything organized in one professional place.

The Problem

Let me explain the problem. When you study or work in Computer Science, you are constantly reading documentation and API references in English.

You’ll often find words you don't fully understand, and searching Google all day is a waste of time.

Misunderstanding a term could lead to system crashes or security bugs those cost clients a lot of money.

But don't worry. I'll show you an easy solution that is also time-effective.

The Quest

First, open your browser. Type virtualwritingtutor.com and press enter.

This is "Virtual Tutor." It's a website full of tools to help you improve your writing skills in English. Today we are going to concentrate on the glossary tool. On the top of the page, you will see a blue toolbar. You are going to click on the fourth element starting from the left, the one that says "Writing Tools." Once you click on it, it's going to open a pull-down menu. You are going to click "Glossary Creator".

The Solution

Now that you are on the glossary page, on the right hand side of the screen you will see a box mark "New Glossary Title". Click on that box and write the name of your glossary. Then click on the button "New Glossary".

On that page you can see on the left side the "editor" tool and the right side the "preview" page. On the editor side you can see multiple blue boxes. On the right side of each box you will see a blue pen in a box, click there to add or edit the box. The first one is the tittle which we already addressed on the previous page. Then there is the "topic" button which you can use to write the topic of your glossary's field. Under that you can write an introduction if you want.

Then, we arrive at the interesting part. It's here that you can inter the terms that you want to keep easily accessible. Let's start from top to bottom. Click on edit "Term 1" a pop page will open. You will then be able to add you term. Click "Check Grammar" to verify your grammar. When it's done, click save. These two buttons will be present in every box of the glossary.

After that, click the "Part of speech" edit button. You can enter the part of the speech of the word you want to add to the glossary.

Then click on "Pronunciation". On the pop-up click on the sound button. It will create a reading of the term. Click save.

After that, click on "Definition" then click "Go". It will bring on a Google page. Find the appropriate definition. Then copy it, go back to the Virtual Tutor and paste it in the writing box.

In the "Translation" box click on the default language "English" a roll down menu will appear. Select your language of choice, for me it's gonna be French. Click on the "Go" button. Then copy it, go back to the Virtual Tutor and paste it in the writing box.

In the "Example" box click the "Go" button. On the website that it brought you click on the example that you want. Copy and paste the part of the text that you want to keep in Virtual Tutor.

You can add an image. Go to Google, type you term and search. After that click "Images", find the one that you want. Right click on the image and press copy the address in the "Image URL" box. Click save.

Once that's done you can add as many terms as you want simply click on the button "+ term" in the bottom right corner the previous term. When your glossary is completed on the middle top right corner there is going to be a "publish" button, click it. It's then going to offer you to open a new page, click on the hyperlink. Once you are on your glossary, you can copy the URL to quickly open it.