Moopec: A Tool for Creating Programming Problems

Author Rui C. Mendes



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Rui C. Mendes
  • Centro Algoritmi, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
  • www.di.uminho.pt/ rcm/

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I want to thank Pedro Ribeiro for gently supplying the script used for providing the feedback shown in Fig. 1.

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Rui C. Mendes. Moopec: A Tool for Creating Programming Problems. In Second International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2021). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 91, pp. 9:1-9:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2021.9

Abstract

This paper presents a tool called Mooshak ProblEm Creator (Moopec) for facilitating the creation of programming exercises for a web-based multi-site programming contest system called Mooshak [Leal and Silva, 2003]. Users only need to create a text file for specifying all the information concerning problems including their description, tests and user feedback. This tool provides ways of automating most tasks involved in creating problems in Mooshak and, consequently, increases teachers' productivity. Moopec allows instructors to quickly create problem sets by simply editing a text file. Moopec is implemented in Python and is available at https://github.com/rcm/mooshak_problem_creator.

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  • Applied computing → Computer-managed instruction
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  • Automatic Program Assessment
  • Batch Generation
  • Testing

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