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Harden the tests for the basics concept exercise#340

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@glennj glennj commented Feb 18, 2026

  • Test for the expected number of lines
  • For task 4, in the passwd file put an unexpected line before the last expected line.

Resolves #337

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This PR touches files which potentially affect the outcome of the tests of an exercise. This will cause all students' solutions to affected exercises to be re-tested.

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glennj commented Feb 18, 2026

There are 200 students who started this exercise, and only 115 have completed it.

I wonder if it's typical that the first concept exercise has such a low completion, or is awk just that weird for people.

  • that is even lower than jq, which is that weird.

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There are 200 students who started this exercise, and only 115 have completed it.

I wonder if it's typical that the first concept exercise has such a low completion, or is awk just that weird for people.

  • that is even lower than jq, which is that weird.

Is it possible to check student's submissions?
To be able figure out the case for such low percent?

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glennj commented Feb 21, 2026

Is it possible to check student's submissions? To be able figure out the case for such low percent?

Jeremy can extract them from the db. But he won't be responsive to such a request for some time.

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Edge case in Basics concept exercise tests

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