automatically grading small programming assignments

[Paddy]

Brian Blais wrote:

> commander.coder at hotmail.com wrote:
> > bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> > Then on your PC you can
> >> run a script that loads each of such programs, and runs a good series
> >> of tests, to test their quality...
> > What happens if someone-- perhaps not even someone in the class-- does
> > some version of os.system('rm -Rf /') ?
> >
>
> I was thinking of including a dummy os.py and sys.py, so import os, and import sys
> would fail.  Would this work?  Is there anything else obvious.  I can have student
> authentication, that's not a problem.

Setting up a Crunchy server in a virtualized OS environment would give
you some security.

- Paddy.