[LON-CAPA-users] maxima response problems?

Felicia Berryman lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:52:39 -0400


Hi Robley,

It's best to err on the side of reporting it as a bug then just leave 
something as a mystery that could come back to haunt us.  With all of 
these math discussions going by lately, I personally follow the 
statement below:

"Why didn't your report that?" > "That's not a bug. Reject it."

I tried replicating your error here and couldn't.  This is what I did:
1. Went into course that never imported cas.problem
2. Changed question type to practice
3. Edit Course
4. Import
5. Browsed to cas.problem and tried it out.

Everything worked fine for me.

Felicia

Robley Light wrote:
> I think I've discovered the source of my difficulty in viewing cas.problem
> from resource space.  Felicia, do you think this is a bug?
> 
> I was having the same problem whether I was logged into our server or to
> s10.lite.msu.edu or vita.fh-wolfenbuettel.de (by the way, Stefan, I get a
> certificate error when I go to that site).  In each case I was assuming the
> role of course coordinator in my Chemistry Demo site which I set up to show
> people the capabilities of LON-CAPA for chemistry.  When I took a course
> coordinator role in another course, the problem worked fine.
> 
> The only difference in my Chemistry Demo site is that I have set it up to
> show all problems in "practice" mode, so anyone browsing the course can get
> a feel for the variety available in each question.
> 
> However, I only see this difficulty with the cas.problem.  The other
> problems in the same directory (Formel.problem, numerisch.problem) work
> fine, as do problems from other libraries.
> 
> Perhaps this is a glitch related to maxima?  Stefan, can you tell me the
> location of a few other maxima problems so I can check if this is related to
> maxima, or just some kind of glitch in cas.problem?
> 
> Robley Light
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org 
>> [mailto:lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Robley Light
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:05 AM
>> To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
>> Subject: RE: [LON-CAPA-users] maxima response problems?
>>
>> Interesting.  If I go to the link in your message below, it 
>> works fine.  But if I look up the problem through resource 
>> space, while as a course coordinator, and click on the 
>> problem I get the problem but it doesn't seem to accept the answer. 
>>
>> We are running 2.6.3-2008040416 
>>
>> Robley
>>
>> *************************************************************
>> Robley J. Light                         Professor of Chemistry and
>> Biochemistry
>> Department of Chemistry          Phone:   (850) 644-3844 
>>    and Biochemistry                   Email:  rlight@chem.fsu.edu   
>> Florida State University             Fax:      (850) 644-8281
>> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390    Home Page:
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>>                      
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org
>>> [mailto:lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of Stefan 
>>> Bisitz
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:00 AM
>>> To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
>>> Subject: RE: [LON-CAPA-users] maxima response problems?
>>>
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> Where have you tried to answer this problem - directly on 
>> our server 
>>> following the link provided below or on another server? If 
>> it was on 
>>> our server, I and others, too, never saw any issues. That would be 
>>> very strange.
>>>
>>>
>>> It happens from time to time that users wonder why some 
>> functionality 
>>> doesn't work as expected. It's very important to always be 
>> up-to-date 
>>> with the current official LON-CAPA release. Otherwise some LON-CAPA 
>>> problems won't work correctly.
>>>
>>>> I get neither a correct nor an incorrect reply--just a 
>> cleared web 
>>>> page.
>>> Empty page without anything on the screen? Strange... Even 
>> with an old 
>>> LON-CAPA release this problem should show the original problem text 
>>> but without any feedback after having hit the submit button.
>>>
>>> Please let me know more details so that we can try to figure out 
>>> what's going wrong since math problems are more and more 
>> interesting 
>>> for the big LON-CAPA community. More and more find out that 
>> problems 
>>> using a computer algebra system means to have _much_ more 
>>> possibilities.
>>>
>>> Stefan Bisitz
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11.08.2008, 17:12 -0400 Robley Light wrote:
>>>> Stefan,
>>>>
>>>> Why is this problem not accepting an answer from me?  
>> When I enter 
>>>> something I get neither a correct nor an incorrect
>>> reply--just a cleared web page.
>>>> Robley Light
>>>>
>>>> *************************************************************
>>>> Robley J. Light                	Professor Emeritus of 
>>> Chemistry and
>>>> Biochemistry
>>>> Department of Chemistry        	Phone:   (850) 644-3844
>>>>    and Biochemistry 		Email:  rlight@chem.fsu.edu 
>>>> 95 Chieftan Way		  	Fax:      (850) 
>>> 644-8281            
>>>> Florida State University    	Home Page:
>>>> http://www.chem.fsu.edu/editors/rlight     
>>>> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390       
>>>>                     
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org
>>>>> [mailto:lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf
>>> Of Stefan
>>>>> Bisitz
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:25 AM
>>>>> To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] maxima response problems?
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Justin,
>>>>>
>>>>> This was one of those thousand little things to do...
>>>>>
>>>>> Please find this problem republished as public and with 
>> open XML 
>>>>> code in the resource space.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://vita.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/res/fhwf/bisitz/Demo/Moeglich
>>>>> keiten/Eingabe/cas.problem
>>>>>
>>>>> By the way, this problem (with some minor enhancements 
>> and without
>>>>> localisation) will be the new mathresponse problem template in 
>>>>> LON-CAPA 2.7.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stefan Bisitz
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Justin Gray wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Peter,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would be very interested to see the code for
>>>>>>
>>>>>> */res/fhwf/bisitz/Demo/Moeglichkeiten/Eingabe/cas.problem*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (This problem is already translated into English.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>>> Justin
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Peter Riegler < 
>>>>>> p.riegler@fh-wolfenbuettel.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> about a third of the problems on /res/fhwf and /res/nds are 
>>>>>>> using
>>>>>> maxima.> Code is accessible.
>>>>>>> Problem is: most of them are in German.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you can somehow figure out that you find one or the
>>>>> other problem
>>>>>>> helpful we will be happy to add an English translation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lars Jensen wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hi Everyone,
>>>>>>>> Is anyone aware of any published maxima response 
>> problems? In
>>>>>> particular>>  problems published with code?
>>>>>>>> Thanks for any replies.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lars.
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