quizzer.git
11 years ago.gitignore: Ignore MANIFEST and dist/ packaging side effects
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:33:32 +0000 (15:33 -0500)]
.gitignore: Ignore MANIFEST and dist/ packaging side effects

11 years agoMANIFEST.in: Distribute COPYING and quizzes/*.json
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:33:13 +0000 (15:33 -0500)]
MANIFEST.in: Distribute COPYING and quizzes/*.json

11 years agosetup.py: Package with distutils
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:31:03 +0000 (15:31 -0500)]
setup.py: Package with distutils

11 years agoREADME: Flesh out description and add example typescript
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:30:27 +0000 (15:30 -0500)]
README: Flesh out description and add example typescript

11 years agoREADME: Mention Python 3.3 dependency
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:11:44 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
README: Mention Python 3.3 dependency

11 years agoCOPYING: Distribute quizzer under the GPLv3+
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:10:42 +0000 (15:10 -0500)]
COPYING: Distribute quizzer under the GPLv3+

11 years agoquizzes/git: Add preliminary Git quiz (repository creation)
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:09:41 +0000 (15:09 -0500)]
quizzes/git: Add preliminary Git quiz (repository creation)

11 years agoAdd Question.multiline and associated handling
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:07:32 +0000 (15:07 -0500)]
Add Question.multiline and associated handling

Some questions can't be answered in a single line without reqiring
more shell knowledge than we need (e.g. `&&`).

11 years agoui.cli: Import `readline` for more comfortable input() editing
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 19:39:02 +0000 (14:39 -0500)]
ui.cli: Import `readline` for more comfortable input() editing

11 years agoquizzes/posix-shell: Add a preliminary POSIX shell language quiz
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 19:37:21 +0000 (14:37 -0500)]
quizzes/posix-shell: Add a preliminary POSIX shell language quiz

11 years agoquizzes/posix-utilities: Rename from posix-shell.json and flesh out
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 19:10:03 +0000 (14:10 -0500)]
quizzes/posix-utilities: Rename from posix-shell.json and flesh out

Added few more questions:
* print the current directory to stdout
* change to your home directory
* change to the parent of your current working directory
* print the contents of README file to the terminal

The renaming is because the tests are testing knowledge of POSIX
utilities, not knowledge of the shell syntax itself.

11 years agoquestion: Normalize tempdir paths in stdout/stderr
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 19:09:05 +0000 (14:09 -0500)]
question: Normalize tempdir paths in stdout/stderr

Otherwise it's hard to test `pwd`, since tempdir will change between
the expected and user-supplied answer runs.

11 years agoquestion: Add ChoiceQuestion for one-of-several correct answers
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 18:54:18 +0000 (13:54 -0500)]
question: Add ChoiceQuestion for one-of-several correct answers

11 years agoquizzes: Move quizzes into a subdirectory
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 18:51:04 +0000 (13:51 -0500)]
quizzes: Move quizzes into a subdirectory

11 years agoAdd script invocation to ScriptQuestion
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 18:46:31 +0000 (13:46 -0500)]
Add script invocation to ScriptQuestion

We need Python >= 3.3 for the `timeout` argument to
Popen.communicate().

11 years agoRemove debugging print(self.stack) from UserInterface.get_question()
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 17:19:18 +0000 (12:19 -0500)]
Remove debugging print(self.stack) from UserInterface.get_question()

11 years agoInitial ScriptQuestion framework
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 17:18:21 +0000 (12:18 -0500)]
Initial ScriptQuestion framework

11 years agoFix 'hint' -> 'help' typos
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 16:52:30 +0000 (11:52 -0500)]
Fix 'hint' -> 'help' typos

11 years agoquestion: Use Question._state_attributes in __init__ and __setstate__
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 16:39:43 +0000 (11:39 -0500)]
question: Use Question._state_attributes in __init__ and __setstate__

11 years agoquestion: Add Question._state_attributes for easier subclassing
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 16:05:15 +0000 (11:05 -0500)]
question: Add Question._state_attributes for easier subclassing

This way subclasses can extend the list instead of overriding
__getstate__.

11 years agoAdd question class storage (lookups in QUESTION_CLASS)
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:58:40 +0000 (10:58 -0500)]
Add question class storage (lookups in QUESTION_CLASS)

This allows us to specify questions with alternate processing classes.
As a simple example, I've added NormalizedStringQuestion, which
softens the string comparison used in the basic Question.  The next
step is to add a command-line question ;).

11 years agoui.cli: Rework display_result() for multiple answers per question
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:45:11 +0000 (10:45 -0500)]
ui.cli: Rework display_result() for multiple answers per question

11 years agoui: Add dependency handling to UserInterface.get_question
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:37:41 +0000 (10:37 -0500)]
ui: Add dependency handling to UserInterface.get_question

We start the stack with all the leaf questions (i.e. questions that
are not dependencies of other question).  If the user gets one wrong,
we push the question back on the stack (so they can try again later),
and also push all of that questions direct dependencies onto the stack
(so they can get the background they need to answer the question they
got wrong).

11 years agoquestion: Add Question.__str__() and __repr__()
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:27:16 +0000 (10:27 -0500)]
question: Add Question.__str__() and __repr__()

For easily viewing questions in lists.

11 years agoCatch EOFError (control-d) in CommandLineInterface input() call
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:16:26 +0000 (10:16 -0500)]
Catch EOFError (control-d) in CommandLineInterface input() call

11 years agoAdd dependency storage (list of question IDs)
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:15:16 +0000 (10:15 -0500)]
Add dependency storage (list of question IDs)

11 years agoUse question.id instead of question.prompt for answer indexing
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:08:52 +0000 (10:08 -0500)]
Use question.id instead of question.prompt for answer indexing

This decouples the keying from the prompt, which is useful if you want
to use another value for the `id` (e.g. a question number).

If `id` is not specified, it defaults to `prompt`.

11 years agoAdd trailing newlines to saved JSON files
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:01:49 +0000 (10:01 -0500)]
Add trailing newlines to saved JSON files

11 years agoAdd a persistent answers database
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:01:25 +0000 (10:01 -0500)]
Add a persistent answers database

11 years agoVisually separate the results from the questions
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:34:03 +0000 (09:34 -0500)]
Visually separate the results from the questions

11 years agoAdd .display_results() for showing users their results and scores
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:29:58 +0000 (09:29 -0500)]
Add .display_results() for showing users their results and scores

11 years agoDisplay results (but not the correct answers)
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:19:36 +0000 (09:19 -0500)]
Display results (but not the correct answers)

11 years agoDon't crash with IndexError when we run out of questions
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:09:50 +0000 (09:09 -0500)]
Don't crash with IndexError when we run out of questions

11 years agoMake get_question() a bit more interesting
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:07:18 +0000 (09:07 -0500)]
Make get_question() a bit more interesting

11 years agoAdd a simple command line interface
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:06:44 +0000 (09:06 -0500)]
Add a simple command line interface

11 years agoAdded saving, loading, and a test quiz
W. Trevor King [Tue, 5 Feb 2013 13:49:54 +0000 (08:49 -0500)]
Added saving, loading, and a test quiz

11 years agoStubbing out the initial framework
W. Trevor King [Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:05:32 +0000 (18:05 -0500)]
Stubbing out the initial framework