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.
Or perhaps there is a better way to do this sort of thing. How do others who
teach
Python handle this?
thanks,
Brian Blais
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