[Edu-sig] PyBat ???

[kirby urner]

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 at 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
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