NAME

QuizMaker - Build tests of math problems formatted with LaTeX

DESCRIPTION

A student studying math, physics or engineering will accumulate many problems during the course of a class. If these problems are recorded on paper they can be difficult to search through and study from.

QuizMaker is used to easily build tests of these problems.

The test template and the problems themselves use LaTeX so it is simple to format equations, tables, etc.

USAGE

Given a test.template and a .test, such as the following

~/quizmaker/examples$ cat linux-admin.test 

title: Linux Admin Test

problem_files:
    - linux/linux_abc.prb
    - networking/osi-levels-01.prb
    - networking/osi-levels-02.prb
    - networking/network-address-01.prb
    - math/estimate224.prb
    - operating_systems/operation-speed.prb
    - system_design/count.prb

author: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>

# vim:syntax=yaml

along with problems such as

~/quizmaker/examples$ cat operating_systems/operation-speed.prb 
tags:
    - interview
    - linux
    - operating systems

time: 1 minute

short_desc: speed of operations

question: |
    Rank the following operations from fastest to slowest:
    \begin{enumerate}
    \item Read from CPU register.
    \item Disc seek.
    \item Context switch.
    \item Read from main memory.
    \end{enumerate}

    \vspace*{0.5in}

answer: |
    From fastest to slowest is: 1, 4, 3, 2.

author: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>

# vim:syntax=yaml

the LaTeX output is generated by simply running qzm

~/quizmaker/examples$ qzm -t test.template -c linux-admin.test > linux-admin.tex

Then LaTeX can be processed using the usual tools

~/quizmaker/examples$ pdflatex linux-admin.tex

For more examples see the examples/ directory.

AUTHOR

Jeremiah Mahler jmmahler@gmail.com
https://github.com/jmahler/

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017, Jeremiah Mahler. All Rights Reserved.
This project is free software and released under the GNU General Public License.