Hi All,
Does nbgrader work with any notebook, regardless of programming language? I am thinking about whether I could use this, for example, to grade notebooks that depend on other language kernels, like Java, C++, C#, etc.
Thanks!
Paul
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Just stumbling on this question. These last two years, we have been using nbgrader with xeus-cling (C++ interpreter) here for teaching our 400 students undergraduate intro to programming class:
http://nicolas.thiery.name/Enseignement/Info111/
(sorry in French)
There were some glitches at first due to xeus-cling being very new and having some corner cases with the Jupyter protocol. Meanwhile These have been fixed thanks to the superb reactivity of the xeus-cling team, and things are working smoothly now.
From this experience, and given the very simple paradigm used by nbgrader, which makes for a louse coupling with the kernel, I would expect that any language with a robust kernel will work smoothly with nbgrader.
Cheers,
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We have been using nbgrader with Julia with pretty good success. The trick for use was to update the configuration files so that the preprocessors know what to add when encountering a non-default kernel. Here is an example of our config with Julia, and this section of the docs go into more detail on how to use nbgrader with other languages.
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