A technique for student program submission on UNIX systems
P MacPherson · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 1997
This paper presents a new scheme for collecting student programs and redistributing grades using simple UNIX scripts. Students keep their work in their own private subdirectories within a directory dedicated to a single class. When a program is due, control of the areas and files contained within them are passed over to the instructor. This locks the programs from alteration and provides a strict form of accountability. When the programs are graded, control of the area is returned to the individual student with the grade file both mailed to the student and left in a file readable by the student. Such a flexible framework has been used for a variety of languages and by students of varying levels of computing experience.