Epoch

• Student: Prasanth Ramachandran (2003).
• Purpose: Design and implement a facility for scoring organic-chemistry homework and providing feedback to students for wrong answers.
• Method: EPOCH is a plugin for courseware such as Blackboard with web interfaces for students, instructors, authors, and administrators. Courses contain assignments, which contain problems, which include conditions that determine whether a given answer (in the form of a chemical structure interactively entered by an applet) is right or wrong and provide feedback to the students.
• What the student learned
  1. Tools: Tomcat (web server), JChem (chemical informatics package), MarvinSketch (drawing applet), BlackBoard (courseware), Oracle (database management)
  2. Languages: JSP, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Perl, Prolog, SQL, JDBC
  3. Techniques: Prototype-based software development, object-relational diagrams
  4. Documentation and packaging techniques
  Summary documentation can be found at this site.