HeroEngineer.com was a professor's pet project for 3 semesters with over 50 students at USC. It's now discontinued, and the source code is released for reference if other students want to build on the idea in the future. Also note that HeroEngineer was an experiment requiring rapid prototyping and feedback, so it doesn't have tests, documentation, or the other niceties you might hope to find in a professional-grade project.
- Java and Lombok
- Spring and Spring Boot
- MongoDB
- Gradle
- Docker and docker-compose
- Customizable SVG avatars and accounts secured with Json Web Tokens
- Quizzes, "quests," and in-class assignments (with both automatic multiple-choice feedback and manual professor input)
- Guided group formation process and chat rooms for student groups
- PDF generation for university accreditation
Please do not use this project in its current state without first changing all hardcoded passwords -- or (a better option) make them into environment variables instead. I didn't put any license on this project, but consider it free to use in any way you like -- no attribution or copyright notice needed.
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