rowanion/codechallengemaker

A framework (based on Qt) for making and running code challenges that can be implemented with a plugin

CodeChallengeMaker

A little Qt5-app for making and running code challenges that can be implemented with a plugin

Pre-requisites

• Qt5
• (current version of) CMake
• a compiler that can compile C++17

Supports

• Windows
• Linux (although no VSCode launch configs are provided)

Features

• A simple UI with an input field, an output field and a few buttons
• An interface for writing plugins (example/ExamplePlugin serves as a template)
• All the boilerplate for the build system, the Qt and the plugins is already there
• The separated plugin system allows for further metrics like cycles, memory footprint and execution time (not yet implemented)
• Note: I've put my solutions into a private submodule, so you don't get spoilers
• This is 'just' the app and the frame for writing your own solutions

How to use

• copy the example plugin into 'plugins' and rename it to match the challenge.
• Set the name in the CMakeLists.txt as well (in project(Challenge2023-12-01_1))
• copy the description into the resources/descriptionFile.txt (optional)
• copy the input into the resources/inputFile.txt (optional)
• implement your solution inside ChallengeResult ChallengePlugin::runChallenge(const QString& _pInput)
• Open the App and click on 'Load Plugin' - select your plugin dll/so and you can execute/debug.

Future work

• Drag and Drop for the input file (if any)
• plugin hot-reloading & self-compiling
• The plugin interface's external virtual execution function will not be run from outside.
  • instead there will be a surrogate function that will be run from outside and will call the virtual function
  • this will alow for isolated metrics measurement