Hi, I teach a CS course, and I was wondering if there is a practical way in which to setup a server that would accept student’s tar files, run some tests, and show them the results.

I could go “full unix mode” and roll up some accounts let them ssh into a server, scp their their files… but I was wondering if there is a prepacked solution for this that is nicer to the eye. And I thought maybe you know some.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You can accept them on internal networks, just have a file size limit and don’t extract them locally, but send to some cloud service for handling. You could even have it work with email attachments if you want.

    Basically:

    1. Put file somewhere
    2. Spin up runner
    3. Upload and execute code
    4. Spin down runner either upon success or after a time limit
    5. Send result to the student (if it to took too long, that’s a fail too)