Useful Scripts for Computer Science TAs

Generic Stop

Takes in a pattern to be grep'ed for in the processes list and tries to kill the processes involved
Author: Shirshanka Das Email: shanky@cs.ucla.edu
Download: generic-stop.pl.

Server Checker

This script can be modified to monitor a set of processes that you may be running.
It checks for whether the processes are still running goes to sleep for 5 minutes, comes back up. Each of the processes can be associated with a number which specifies the number of processes each of which will have the same name e.g. when the process forks a number of other processes. In this example simpleserver forks two processes and therefore appears thrice in the process list Thus the number associated with simpleserver is 3. With the restart option the script with shut down the process and then restart them.
Useful if you're running a set of servers and modify their code and want to restart them.
Author: Shirshanka Das Email: shanky@cs.ucla.edu
Download:server-checker.pl.

Makelist

creates a list of SIDs from a list of files whose name is the SID (useful for CS3X grading with Professor Smallberg)
Author: Gary Underwood Email: fmarshal@cs.ucla.edu
Download:makelist.


CS131 scripts

For the following scripts, the system is based on a grades file in comma separated (plain text with commas for columns) format. These scripts were specifically designed for CS131 and have been revised, but never rewritten so the coding isn't that great. Perl version 5 or later required.
These scripts can be generalized to be used for other classes.

Author: Gary Underwood Email: fmarshal@cs.ucla.edu These should be in instructor only account:

add-midterm: puts midterm grades into grades.csv from plain text file, shows histogram.

add-scores: like above but for homework, input file is output from ??????.

avg-col: averages a column in the gradebook, updates averages inside of grades.csv, shows histogram

column_names: which columns contain which grades and file locking for grades.csv, used by all the others.

classavg: overall average of each student in class and class as a whole, creates output file of letter grades suitable for upload to CourseWeb, displays histogram of averages

create-col-csv: for multi-section classes, creates separate .csv files for upload to courseweb for each section for a particular assignment

editgrade: edits command line tool for safely editing grades.csv

email: sends grades to students

get-role creates grades.csv gradebook from role file downloaded from CourseWeb

make-seas-list: creates list of seas accounts from grades.csv, useful so that make-dirs can create student directories on the instructor account so that instructor is owner (otherwise there is a 24 hour delay before directory is owned/changable by instructor)

sg2: pretty print of particular students grades

These are on account where 'submit' command sends student assignments:

avg: looks at output file of grading scripts to compute average and histogram

ch: uses environmental strings to find students assignments for stats on who submitted

compile: compiles student assignments

Glogin: shell script with environmental variables for use in other scripts

killbad.pl: used by wrap to kill student's code that has hung

make-dirs: used with outut of make-seas-list

make-scores-list: looks at output file of grading scripts, creates file of seas_account score pairs for use with add-scores

noncompiles: list of those whose code didn't compile

non-graded: submitted but not yet graded

no-submit: list of students who didn't submit

teststats: statistics on test cases for assignment

wraptest: compiles (as needed) and executes test cases for all students, creates output file of results and grade for a student