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| The existing Python autograder has served courses well for years, but as PrairieLearn has grown, a number of longstanding pain points have surfaced: |
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I'd reframe these bullet points in the positive sense. So say "the new auto grader improves in the following ways" and have things like "security isolation: student code now runs in an isolated process to ensure 100% security from attacks by students". And "clearer feedback: ...", etc. I always find it's better to say what cool new stuff you'll get, rather than what was wrong before.
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See title, blog post for the new python autograder.
Repo here https://github.com/eliotwrobson/pl-python-autograder-v2