Automated laboratory artifact production

  • Authors:
  • James Heliotis

  • Affiliations:
  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Well-designed laboratory experiments in computer science take experience and hard work. Unfortunately, deploying these labs is also a lot of work. Web pages or hard copies of instructions must be set up, grading guidelines and scoring sheets need to be created, etc. Later, if the lab changes or is redeployed in another course, many of these artifacts must be individually edited. This paper presents one approach to simplifying laboratory artifact production. The approach is based on the idea that all files, configurations, scripts, etc. should be generated from a small set of non-redundant documents that can easily be modified.