quizzes/software-carpentry-pre-assessment: Automate the pre-assessment

From swcarpentry/assets [1], as of 4a6d554 (Importing a whole bunch of
old material relevant to Software Carpentry, 2012-12-20).

[1]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/assets/blob/master/assessment/5.1/wilson-pre-assessment-2012-11.html

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+{
+       "version": "0.3",
+       "copyright": [
+               "Copyright (C) 2013 Greg Wilson <gvwilson@third-bit.com>",
+               "",
+               "The questions for this quiz are CC BY 3.0 Unported",
+               "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
+               ],
+       "introduction": "Pre-assessment for Software Carpentry boot camps.  Better scientist training through science!",
+       "questions": [
+               {
+                       "class": "ChoiceQuestion",
+                       "prompt": "Career stage",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "answer": [
+                               "Undergrad",
+                               "Grad",
+                               "Post-doc",
+                               "Faculty",
+                               "Industry",
+                               "Support staff"
+                       ]
+               },
+               {
+                       "class": "ChoiceQuestion",
+                       "prompt": "Discipline",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "accept_all": true,
+                       "answer": [
+                               "Space science",
+                               "Physics",
+                               "Chemistry",
+                               "Earth science (geology, oceanography, meteorology)",
+                               "Life science (ecology and organisms)",
+                               "Life science (cells and genes)",
+                               "Brain and neurosciences",
+                               "Medicine",
+                               "Engineering (civil, mechanical, chemical)",
+                               "Computer science/electrical engineering",
+                               "Economics",
+                               "Humanities/social sciences",
+                               "Tech support/lab tech/support programmer",
+                               "Admin"
+                       ]
+               },
+               {
+                       "class": "ChoiceQuestion",
+                       "prompt": "Platform",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "accept_all": true,
+                       "answer": [
+                               "Linux",
+                               "Apple OS X",
+                               "Microsoft Windows"
+                       ]
+               },
+               {
+                       "class": "ChoiceQuestion",
+                       "prompt": "How do you usually store files that you update?",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "accept_all": true,
+                       "answer": [
+                               "Save over the current version in the same file, or add.",
+                               "Add some date information in the filename and/or use directories with version information.",
+                               "Use a version control system like Subversion, Git, Mercurial, etc."
+                       ]
+               },
+               {
+                       "class": "ChoiceQuestion",
+                       "prompt": "A tab-delimited file has two columns: the date, and the highest temperature on that day. Produce a graph showing the average highest temperature for each month.",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "answer": [
+                               "Could do it easily",
+                               "Would recognize a correct solution if I saw one",
+                               "Could struggle through",
+                               "Wouldn't know where to start"
+                       ]
+               },
+               {
+                       "class": "Question",
+                       "prompt": "A tab-delimited file has two columns: the date, and the highest temperature on that day. What language/tool would you use to produce a graph showing the average highest temperature for each month?",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "accept_all": true
+               },
+               {
+                       "class": "ChoiceQuestion",
+                       "prompt": "Write a short program to read a file containing columns of numbers separated by commas, average the non-negative values in the second and fifth columns, and print the results.",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "answer": [
+                               "Could do it easily",
+                               "Would recognize a correct solution if I saw one",
+                               "Could struggle through",
+                               "Wouldn't know where to start"
+                       ]
+               },
+               {
+                       "class": "Question",
+                       "prompt": "What language/tool would you use to read a file containing columns of numbers separated by commas, average the non-negative values in the second and fifth columns, and print the results?",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "accept_all": true
+               },
+               {
+                       "class": "ChoiceQuestion",
+                       "prompt": "In a directory with 1000 text files, create a list of all files that contain the word Drosophila, and redirect the output to a file called results.txt.",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "answer": [
+                               "Could do it easily",
+                               "Would recognize a correct solution if I saw one",
+                               "Could struggle through",
+                               "Wouldn't know where to start"
+                       ]
+               },
+               {
+                       "class": "ChoiceQuestion",
+                       "prompt": "A database has two tables Scientist and Lab. The Scientist table's columns are the scientist's student ID, name, and email address; the Lab table's columns are lab names, lab IDs, and scientist IDs. Write an SQL statement that outputs a count of the number of scientists in each lab.",
+                       "display_choices": true,
+                       "answer": [
+                               "Could do it easily",
+                               "Would recognize a correct solution if I saw one",
+                               "Could struggle through",
+                               "Wouldn't know where to start"
+                       ]
+               }
+       ]
+}