What did I do this week?

This week was spent implementing a specific type of Snippet viz, the MCQ Snippet. This is a very important subtype as it is currently the only way to check retention of information from the user's part. The YAML structure for this snippet had to be made simple so that anyone can use it irrespective of their technical know-how. The current YAML structure looks like this:

The keys are self explanatory. To properly check for retention I decided to randomly shuffle the options every time the snippet is parsed. The Hint will be used after every wrong answer given by the user.

What is coming next?

Since 2 out of the 3 proposed Snippets have been added. I will be working on the 3rd one next, i.e.: The Code Snippet. This one is by far going to be the most complicated snippet as it involves evaluating python code written during runtime. I'll take a look at swirl to see how they have achieved this with R, and maybe look into the "code" module in Python.

Did I get stuck anywhere?

The MCQ snippet was pretty easy to implement, since it's a non console snippet and the abstract classes defined during the previous weeks already had the implementations of the basic functions. So I did not get stuck anywhere during this week.