zucchini 0.4.0

Zucchini is an automatic grader tool for use in grading programming assignments.

Zucchini

Zucchini is an automatic grader tool for use in grading programming assignments.

• Free software: Apache Software License 2.0

• Documentation: https://zucchini.readthedocs.io.

Installation

$ pip install --user zucchini
$ zucc --help

Getting Started with Development

After cloning this repo and installing virtualenv, run

$ virtualenv -p python3 venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
$ zucc --help

Features

• Unified grading infrastructure: eliminates maintenance load of ad-hoc per-assignment graders

• Separates test results from computed grades: graders provide test results which are stored on disk, and then zucchini calculates grade based on the weight of each test. That is, graders do not perform grade calculation; they only gather information about students’ work

• Simple configuration: update one YAML file and store your graders in git repositories for all your TAs

• Relative weighting: no more twiddling with weights to get them to add up to 100

• Import submissions from Gradescope, Canvas Assignments, or Canvas Quizzes

• No more copy-and-pasting grades and commments: automated upload of Canvas grades and gradelogs

• Flatten (extract) archived submissions

• Gradescope integration: generate a Gradescope autograder tarball for an assignment with one command

Credits

• Austin Adams (@ausbin) for creating lc3grade, which eventually became zucchini

• Cem Gokmen (@skyman) for suggesting converting lc3grade into a generalized autograder for more than just C and LC-3 homeworks, and creating the initial structure of zucchini

• Patrick Tam (@pjztam) for implementing a bunch of graders, gradelogs, and gradelog upload

• Kexin Zhang (@kexin-zhang) for exploring Canvas bulk submission downloads and for creating the demo downloader, which changed our lives

• Travis Adams (@travis-adams) for nothing

History

0.1.0 (2017-12-17)

• First release on PyPI.