On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:34 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull > <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > > אלעזר writes: > > > > > Another use case, though I admit not the top priority of anyone here, > is > > > that of assignment checkers. In most courses I took at the > university, the > > > person who checks the assignments says something like "you are > allowed to > > > use only this this and this libraries", in order not to mess with > unknown > > > dependencies from tens of students (I am talking about advanced > courses, > > > where the method I use to solve the problem is unimportant or only > requires > > > explanation). With this statement they can simply state "you can > import > > > pip". > It's more than that, though. When a student is given an assignment, > it's usually to help said student to learn to *write code*, not to > learn how to walk into the plumbing store of PyPI and look for > something that approximates to the job being done. Maybe it's > different at university, but with my students, it's always been "no > external libraries" (and in some cases, a common-sense avoidance of > obvious solutions from the standard library - if you teach someone how > to implement a sort and the response is simply "lst.sort()", it's not > exactly implementing anything). So the use-case for this isn't nearly > as big as it might be. By the time you get to writing large > applications (again, taking it from my students' work: a Flask-based > web app), it's not illogical to have a requirements.txt and standard > pip incantations. > > ChrisA > I was talking specifically about advanced courses, in which an assignment is "implement a side-channel attack using data" and you can use whatever library you like. Elazar
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