The CS Dept is considering putting a bunch of courses online, using PHP as both the development language, and as a new language to teach students. I've suggested using Python instead. I need to put together a quick demo. I'm thinking of something like javabat.com. I've used Mod_python (the Apache/Python integration), but I'm not yet proficient. Now is the time to change course, if there is a better path. Students will be entering Python code snippets into a window, and we need to run the code on a bunch of test cases, giving immediate feedback on errors, and accumulating the students' scores and work-in-progress. Running user code is a bit more of a challenge than running our code on user data, but javabat has inspired me. Any recommendations? -- Dave ************************************************************ * * David MacQuigg, PhD email: macquigg at ece.arizona.edu * * * Research Associate phone: USA 520-721-4583 * * * * ECE Department, University of Arizona * * * * 9320 East Mikelyn Lane * * * * http://purl.net/macquigg Tucson, Arizona 85710 * ************************************************************ *
Does it have to be either/or? I'm somewhat weak in the PHP department but only by choice, know I could learn it pronto from Safari, as the concepts are pretty much the same. You need: a place to stuff data (SQL), and ORM layer (to assemble objects), a template language (to make it all pretty), plus infrastructure like session monitoring, keeping track of users, who does what (whether RESTful or not RESTful, you still need to do it). I'm sure PHP works for this, as does Ruby, any web framework worth beans. But is your department smallish, no room in the inn for more than one language? Our Reed College in Portland has an ad in the paper for web framework developer, asking for PHP, Python and Ruby savvy. That seems like a good mix. Why not push that? Kirby On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM, David MacQuigg <macquigg@ece.arizona.edu> wrote:
The CS Dept is considering putting a bunch of courses online, using PHP as both the development language, and as a new language to teach students. I've suggested using Python instead. I need to put together a quick demo. I'm thinking of something like javabat.com.
I've used Mod_python (the Apache/Python integration), but I'm not yet proficient. Now is the time to change course, if there is a better path.
Students will be entering Python code snippets into a window, and we need to run the code on a bunch of test cases, giving immediate feedback on errors, and accumulating the students' scores and work-in-progress. Running user code is a bit more of a challenge than running our code on user data, but javabat has inspired me.
Any recommendations?
-- Dave ************************************************************ * * David MacQuigg, PhD email: macquigg at ece.arizona.edu * * * Research Associate phone: USA 520-721-4583 * * * * ECE Department, University of Arizona * * * * 9320 East Mikelyn Lane * * * * http://purl.net/macquigg Tucson, Arizona 85710 * ************************************************************ *
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM, David MacQuigg <macquigg@ece.arizona.edu> wrote:
The CS Dept is considering putting a bunch of courses online, using PHP as both the development language, and as a new language to teach students. I've suggested using Python instead. I need to put together a quick demo. I'm thinking of something like javabat.com.
I've used Mod_python (the Apache/Python integration), but I'm not yet proficient. Now is the time to change course, if there is a better path.
Students will be entering Python code snippets into a window, and we need to run the code on a bunch of test cases, giving immediate feedback on errors, and accumulating the students' scores and work-in-progress. Running user code is a bit more of a challenge than running our code on user data, but javabat has inspired me.
Have a look at Crunchy (http://code.google.com/p/crunchy) and in particular the doctest capability. It does not (yet) have the ability to add student scores but that could be added; otherwise, I believe it would have what you need. Crunchy's included tutorial may be useful "as is" as a demo for you; there are also a few screencasts on showmedo.com. Feel free to email me off-list with any questions about Crunchy. André
Any recommendations?
-- Dave ************************************************************ * * David MacQuigg, PhD email: macquigg at ece.arizona.edu * * * Research Associate phone: USA 520-721-4583 * * * * ECE Department, University of Arizona * * * * 9320 East Mikelyn Lane * * * * http://purl.net/macquigg Tucson, Arizona 85710 * ************************************************************ *
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