[Edu-sig] Test Driven Learning: combining MoinMoin and Crunchy

[Andre Roberge]

Hi everyone,

A new Crunchy screencast is available at
http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1430030&fromSeriesID=143

In this video, I demonstrate how a customized version of MoinMoin can
be used to easily create interactive tutorials for Crunchy.

Using this customized version of MoinMoin, it would be easy to set up
a central repository where teachers could create a collection of
online lessons with exercises to learn Python. Students could retrieve
these lessons using Crunchy and get immediate feedback through the use
of doctest-based exercises.

Note that what is being shown is just an early prototype of a Crunchy
parser for MoinMoin.  More is expected to come over the course of the
summer.

<dreaming>
Apparently, there are 496 subscribers to edu-sig.  Imagine the
following scenario:
1. a central repository is created (perhaps on the Python wiki site)
2. each of us contribute 5 doctest-based exercises, covering all
aspect of Python, in the next year.  Only 5 exercises written in one
year.

The result would be 2500 exercises that students could use to learn
from.  Something like this, I believe, would be an invaluable resource
for teachers - and certainly contribute to Python's popularity
</dreaming>

Cheers,

André