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Foil 6 Virtual Programming Lab

From Discussion of Web Certificate Program and WebWisdom Education Web Technology Day -- Mar 11 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken *
1 Goals:
  • Provide uniform, easy windowing environment for students to run lab exercises and submit their work through a web interface.
  • Assist the student in managing a complex set of Unix directories. Students can learn concepts of directory structure without always dealing with Unix details.
  • Make it easy for students to call up programming examples to work from.
  • Automate adminstration and grading.
2 Based on VPL idea of Kivanc Dincer. Compared to that prototype for a parallel programming environment:
  • Uses Java for user interface, instead of JavaScript
  • More emphasis on managing file system, rather than managing complex set of computing resources.
  • Allows user to own the files and also access normally through Unix.
  • Extended to include more adminstrator functionality, such as setting up directories for different classes, and giving feedback to assignments.
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