Thanks to those who have answered. Let me clarify a bit more what I
need to do. We want to use $USER to verify a valid user before running
the program, so this is very unlikely go on the web or have a web
interface. If a teaching assistant's personal account is compromised,
we're really in deep you-know-what - otherwise, it's our best choice for
security. The program will not be accessed by anyone other than the
course staff.
There will be a back-end flat file (probably CSV) listing the
current students, their basic info, and their homework scores, one per
line. When the user logs in, he/she will be presented with a menu along
these lines:
1. View scores
2. Enter scores
3. Exit
Your choice:
The user can run the program by adding student names to the command line,
in which case the choice will include only those students specified.
Otherwise, based on the $USER, that person's section will be included.
If the choice is to view scores, all students (or those from the args) and
their scores will be shown. If the choice is to enter scores, the user is
asked which homework, then the program will allow the user to enter a
score for each student for the stated homework. At the end, the updates
are written back to the file.
The feature to enter scores is where I'm stuck... I'm debating
trying to use something like curses to display all the student names and
to allow the user to navigate with arrow keys to enter scores, vs.
displaying one student at a time with a request for the score (which
doesn't need curses, but takes more time) - or some other variant of
either of these. At the same time, if the user doesn't want to go
through the entire section, he/she CAN specify only certain students. I
want this to be comfortable and convenient to use, so can't decide which
approach is preferable.
Thanks for your ideas! Jan
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