[LON-CAPA-users] maxima response problems?
Stefan Bisitz
lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:47:44 +0200
Hi Robley, hi Felicia,
Time to answer some questions:
I checked the last version of cas.problem (with "|" instead of ",").
There where other changes but a feedback should have come up on the
screen anyway. I remember that I showed this problem last December at
Frankfurt University on Gerds laptop - English problem text and English
feedback. So, still weird what you report.
Not having current websites could be a local issue: Some institutions
use a caching mechanism to minimize web traffic. This may cause some
strange not-uptodate-errors.
> by the way, Stefan, I get a certificate error when I go to that site
Thanks for the info. But that's because the certificate is self-signed
(a question of money...).
> 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?
If still interested, just use those which Susanne Bellmer has posted
last Monday, for example.
> What is a URL of one of your machines that I could try?
https://vita.fh-wolfenbuettel.de
https://vita.sonia.de
Both with official 2.6.3 release and productive usage.
> PS What is your email address? We could carry on this conversation
> off-list. Mine is rlight@chem.fsu.edu
You can use the same I use here on the list:
st.bisitz@fh-wolfenbuettel.de
Hope this helps a bit,
Stefan Bisitz
On 21.08.2008, 12:52 -0400 Felicia Berryman wrote:
> 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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> > Biochemistry
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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:
> >> http://chemweb.chem.fsu.edu/editors/rlight
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----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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