adrianzatreanu/cli_tasks

Infrastructure for an interactive learning platform based on tasks.

cli_tasks's Issues

[Server] Implement SanityChecker

Instead of throwing errors on bad json received, check the json fields and return a message containing the missing ones.

[Frontend] Have a nicer navigation for topics/tasks

Currently selecting tasks or topics or listing them is done in CLI, which is all nice and good, but having a nicer bar in the UI of seeing them and being able to click on them would make things smoother and more intuitive.

This is very low priority, and could be done eventually.

[Server] Calling show_score with no scores in the db causes an error

[Server] Add logging

In case something goes bad, log it with the appropriate level.

Add script that lets you add new tasks easily

Eventually we will need to provide an easy way to add tasks (by providing a checker, and not having to manually add things to the database).

[Server] Use different users

Currently everything is created as the same user, which has sudo rights and permissions for anything. This should be fixed so that the scripts are not visible to the client, for example.

[Frontend] Add scoreboard

Add the ability to see a scoreboard with all usernames, including the user's, and the place where he is situated.

Add check_current_time command

This is a command idea that would show the user the amount of time elapsed since he started the current task.

[Server] Return stderr too, when needed

Sometimes there are errors such as: "no command found", "no permissions", etc. These should be shown to the client as they are meaningful

[Server] Implement real login

Currently it's just a placeholder that asks for a username.

In the future, a real login shall be used.

[Frontend] Print message if server is down

[Frontend] Add help command

Help command should be added, to show to users how to see their score, tasks completed, list tasks, etc.

[DB] Add scoreboard database

[Frontend] Add shortcuts to long commands

Some commands should have shorter versions, such as "check_current_time" being called with "cct".

[Server] Fix unicode errors

Fix Unicode errors. Should be a try catch. Right now a character with diacritics causes an error in the server.

[Frontend] Start_task should inform server

Once a user starts a task, the server should be informed so that it can, for example, run initialization scripts, randomize data, move files in the user home directory, etc.