Jaime Spacco and I have been working on a web-based programming exercise system called CloudCoder. We've finally reached the point where it's ready for students to use. I wrote up a web page that explains the basic idea (for students in the CS 101 course at York College):
http://faculty.ycp.edu/~dhovemey/spring2012/cs101/cloudCoder.htmlI'm planning to use CloudCoder to assign exercises to accompany each reading assignment. The idea is to give students a concrete way to test their own understanding of the material. I'm also hoping that if students try a problem, and have trouble with it, they will use the opportunity to attend office hours or a tutoring session. We'll see how it works out.
We made CloudCoder available under an open source license (AGPL v3), and the code is on Github:
https://github.com/daveho/CloudCoderThere are definitely some rough edges, but it is usable. If you want to know more, you can drop me a line.
