On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:44:37AM +0000, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:27:07 -0500, Brian Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > > 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. > > > I have some problems with the concept behind the last sentence... It > encourages brute-force trial&error coding (unless you are going to tell > them that each submittal gets logged, AND that multiple submittals will > reduce the final score they get for the assignment).
its been decades since I was in a programming course... salt accordingly. Whenever I learn a new language, I spend a LOT of time just hacking stuff and seeing what it does -- learning syntax and effects by trial and error. Since I already know (okay, knew) good coding practice, the resulting code would not look like it had been hacked together in such a manner, but if I was graded on how many times I executed a bit of code, I'd fail right out. Now, maybe in the second or third semester of a particular language, that might make sense -- the student should already understand syntax and effects well enough to avoid that stuff. .02 from a python newb. A
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