Using JSON to organize quiz questions.

[elucian]

We need a way to store quiz questions for every programming language. Having in mind we organize programming languages in different folders we have already a structure. So the question is where the quiz app is going to be located and where are the quiz questions stored?

I suggest, for every language to create a single JSON file. This file will contain all possible questions. Each question can have details. The details can be images, code source files or html fragments. We need to create a reliable structure to be able to use GitHub to store all these and do version control.

This idea is to use JSON to store questions and answers. How we organize many JSON files and auxiliary files without a database is a different story. I suggest we use a database for other things but not for making the questions.

[VictorFalconi]

We can store the questions in a json file but it has to be on a database, right? Json is just the format, isn't it?

[elucian]

My opinion is that we can store all the questions in JSON files and version control these files so we can manually edit the file to create the questions instead of having a user interface to input questions. It is so much simpler to create just the quiz FORM but is complicated to create the FORM for making questions. We need a database to record the responses but not for storing the questions.