pds@tove.UUCP (Dave Stotts) (10/02/85)
In reference to the discussion about students editing output for submission and grading, I would like to relate the method used for the intro programming classes I have taught. As mentioned in an earlier submission, each student has his own account under a master account (so that the TA's can know where to find a particular student's work). A student writes a program to satisfy an assignment, and leaves the binary in his account, and submits only the source to the grader. The grader then runs all students' programs and collects the outputs for grading. The process is easily automatable, and the student does not have a chance to tamper with the document. This encourages learning of thorough testing as well, since the student does not know what the actual data set to be used will be. Naturally the process can be taken a step further, with the automated routines actually compiling the program source, printing a listing and output, then grading done from there. No tampering allowed. Dave Stotts Univ. of Maryland Computer Science pds@maryland