[soc2008-general] Plugin for Web-CAT

[Greg Wilson]

Web-CAT is probably the most widely used over-the-web grading tool for CS 
courses there is.  Right now it only supports Java and C++ programming; 
adding *safe* Python support would help us (i.e., university profs) move 
to Python as a mainstream instructional language. I'm definitely willing 
to mentor this one, and I believe Karen Reid would be as well.

Thanks,
Greg Wilson

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, eran henig wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> In May this year I will have completed my second year as a student at 
> the University of Toronto toward a bachelor in computer science and 
> economics. As my first undergraduate year I studied at the Technion - 
> Israel Institution of Technology, in computer science program.
>
> I'm interested in developing the Python plugin for Web-CAT for the GSoC 
> 2008. My experience include programming in C, Java, Python and Assembly. 
> I have worked for more than a year with digital medical systems as a QA 
> and as part of the hospitals' technical support team.
>
> I have some ideas about preventing malicious operations from python 
> programs that students will run on the Web-CAT server and I am looking 
> forward creating a custom linkage and loader for security purposes.
>
> I would like to use the opportunity given by the GSoC to take one step 
> forward toward the real world of programming and to be part of an open 
> source project.
>
> Sincerely,
> Henig Eran