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Typing practice app

This is a versatile typing practice app developed as part of an Advanced programming techniques class project. The app showcases some of the more advanced programming concepts in C++ Builder and VCL library.

User-oriented features:

• test your typing skills with customizable practice text and options (virtual keyboard shows pressed keys)
• learn touch typing through courses and lessons
• challenge yourself with the in-app game "Flying Words" (type the flying words before they disappear)
• view detailed lesson stats and overall performance
• track your typing achievements
• configure settings
• diagnose app behavior with logging messages

Core technical features:

• multi-language user interface with dynamic selection
• app settings stored in INI file and Windows registry
• data management with XML, JSON and custom file format
• CRUD operations with MySQL
• lookup and calculated fields, including BLOB fields
• automatic report generation with FastReports
• multi-threading support in the "Flying Words" game
• thread synchronization using mutexes and critical sections
• safe UI updates from the main thread
• log archiving and compression tool
• TCP client/ server and UDP client/ server
• SOAP client/ server and REST client/ server, both as IIS ISAPI plugins
• symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
• hashing with variable salt and pepper
• digital signature support
• custom static and dynamic libraries
• diagrams with TeeChart
• unit testing with DUnit

Build instructions:

• build all projects (RAD Studio 11)
• place GeneratorLib.Lib in the src\ and src\Server folders, place AboutLib.dll, StatisticsLib.dll, ResourceLib.dll in the src\Win32\Debug folder
• place SOAPServer.dll and RESTServer.dll in inetpub\wwwroot folder along with pub_key.bin from the src\Keys folder
• create MySQL database from the script in the src/Db folder
• start IIS with permissions to execute ISAPI dll's
• start TCP and UDP server