Nutmeg is a learning tool for PHP educators (and students). It provides a minimal wrapper around students PHP exercises in a way which handles mistakes gracefully, helps students and teachers understand their code, and takes care of basic things which students shouldn't have to write in a PHP class, like table styles.
- Prepare a set of PHP exercises for Students to try out
- Web front-end for listing exercises
- Side-by-side comparison of students code and output, in the browser
- PHP syntax highlighting
- Graceful error handling for student's code
- Reskin with CSS (currently limited)
- GPL v2 licenced
Nutmeg helps you help student to learn PHP, by providing a way to serve up PHP exercises in a relatively straightforward way.
Requirements:
- Download or checkout the latest version of Nutmeg.
- Run
composer installto get the dependencies and autoloaders built. - Visit
/exercisesto customise the exercises available to your students.
- The list of exercises is stored in
/exercises/config.yaml - Each exercise is a simple PHP file.
If you don't already know PHP, Nutmeg is not currently ready for you to start using it without the supervision of a tutor.
Nutmeg is in early Alpha. Its basic code loading and viewing features are complete, but are not extensively tested.
Some of the features we have in mind:
- Load sample code into exercise view
- Better syntax highlighting
- File dependency handling for exercises
- Argument and global variable handlers.
- PHP function reference
- Custom themes
- Code inspection tools (eg Kint, Krumo etc)
Nutmeg is written and maintained by Chris Skene. Pull requests welcome.
Nutmeg is licenced under GPL v2. Feel free to reuse it as you see fit, but please consider referencing us if you do.