Brian Blais wrote: > Hello, > > I have a couple of classes where I teach introductory programming using > Python. What > I would love to have is for the students to go through a lot of very small > programs, > to learn the basic programming structure. Things like, return the maximum in > a list, > making lists with certain patterns, very simple string parsing, etc. > Unfortunately, > it takes a lot of time to grade such things by hand, so I would like to > automate it > as much as possible. > > I envision a number of possible solutions. In one solution, I provide a > function > template with a docstring, and they have to fill it in to past a doctest. Is > there a > good (and safe) way to do that online? Something like having a student post > code, > and the doctest returns. I'd love to allow them to submit until they get it, > logging > each attempt.
On a different matter, coding style, you could run something such as Pylint on submitted codes and penalize them based on the number of warnings emitted. Maybe some adjustments would be necessary -- my experience with picky compilers is that most but not ALL warnings indicate problems. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
