RE: [Edu-sig] Electronic assignment submission?
-----Original Message----- From: Louis Bertrand To: edu-sig@python.org Sent: 10/21/02 8:55 AM Subject: [Edu-sig] Electronic assignment submission? Not necessarily a Python question (unless the solution is implemented in Python). I'm looking for a system to hand in programming assignments electronically, and return them to the students (IMHO, a trickier problem). Web, email or other, ideally running on a freenix server (BSD). It would be fun to write my own, and I've been looking at pulling mail attachments via IMAP and the MIME tools, or some sort of Web script. But if it's already out there... ======================================================= For just turning them in and you sending back comments, regular email seems best -- as long as they include the program text in the body of the message -- processing attachments usually requires extra steps. If you want to test the program however, the message should arrive at the machine where you can run the test -- and you need to be able to get the program out in runnable form in as few steps as possible. With only a few programs coming in it doesn't much matter how you set things up, but when you have 50-60 coming in they need to be in the right place and easy to process. I use email for UNIX shell scripts and receive them on a Linux server where I can save them to a special directory, remove the header and execute them with a shell. Dick S.
I'm looking for a system to hand in programming assignments electronically, and return them to the students (IMHO, a trickier problem). Web, email or other, ideally running on a freenix server (BSD).
It would be fun to write my own, and I've been looking at pulling mail attachments via IMAP and the MIME tools, or some sort of Web script. But if it's already out there...
Try looking at Zope => http://zope.org It is a powerful web application framework. 100% Python. Free openSource, cross-platform. Lots of plug-in openSource 'products' are available. I am pretty sure at least some of those may do exactly what you want. Several people on this list are using it. Zope is many things to many people. Swiss army knife of web and content management. Perhaps overkill, perhaps not. You can leverage against some wonderful features, supported by the generous, dedicated momentum of a solid community. That community is half users who install other's toolkits and script with them, and the hard-core developer pushing-the-envelope Zopistas reinventing everything all the time, planning the better brighter future. [consumer warning: Zope can be addictive!] As a turnkey deal, it is painless to download and install. In 10 minutes you will have a full web-server with FTP access into a powerful object database [ZODB]. Then use the built-in components to start creating your site/application through the HTML interface and/or via other tools. If there is some special feature you need, check the contributed component lists and download and install those as you need. Most Importing and exporting the site or parts of it is very easy to do. The same .zexp [Zope export] file can be saved from one machine and installed on another remotely. That includes cross-platform. Provided there are no special external dependencies you can imedateialy immediately working. It is thus quite common to find people developing on laptop in Zope using Windows, but also transferring or backing up work to a remote Linux server. Built-in search and cataloguing, as well as fine-grained permission control, make Zope excellent for the type of content management workflow you may want to do. Most admin is done entirely through web forms. Zope is very modular and now template driven, so presentation and features can change with context. Your can program directly using external Python scripts which use the Zope API. These also act as a bridge to any other non-Zope python you want to use. Many well known modules have been wrapped into Zope products - database adapters, image processing, etc. If you do use Zope but prefer a shell command line paradigm, then be sure to check out Jerome Alet's ZShell: http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/ http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/ZShell/action_Presentation Zope.org is the community site, and the only way to really decide about Zope is download and try it out yourself. The Zope mailing lists are high volume and very responsive to all kinds of need and detail. http://www.zope.org/Resources/MailingLists Zope.com is the commercial home, and has some handy couch-potato tradeshow demos in flash/quicktime: http://www.zope.com/Demos Also a client list and case studies: http://www.zope.com/ZopeClientList http://www.zope.com/CaseStudies hth good luck! ./Jason
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