AMC used in a DRY way
Version 1 (Pieter Van den Hombergh, 04/06/2014 05:37 pm)
| 1 | 1 | h1. AMC used in a DRY way |
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| 3 | 1 | An old colleague once turned the often used phrase _copy and paste_ into *copy and waste* which is true in many cases. |
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| 5 | 1 | My experience with LaTeX and making exams with LaTeX is to put each question into a file on its own and then |
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| 6 | 1 | reuse it in other exam. That way, adding 25\% of questions per year will give you an ever larger base of questions. |
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| 8 | 1 | Combining that into a AMC exam is a s simple as pie. Just input the files in a AMC \element. |
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| 10 | 1 | I have several courses (topics) for which I have to prepare exams. |
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| 11 | 1 | I keep all the questions organised in a directory per topic. |
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| 13 | 1 | To not to pollute the MC-projects directory (as in copy and wast), In my exam I add |
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| 14 | 1 | something like a QuestionBaseDir and use that to input all questions as well as inside questions |
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| 15 | 1 | to for instance fetch pictures. |
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| 17 | 1 | <pre> |
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| 18 | 1 | \newcommand\QuestionBaseDir{/home/hom/fthv/hi/sen1/examquestionsmk2} |
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| 19 | 1 | </pre> |
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| 21 | 1 | In a question I would use the same like this: (For a UML horizontal extends symbol inline). |
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| 22 | 1 | <pre> |
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| 23 | 1 | \newcommand\extends{\includegraphics[height=1.5ex]{\QuestionBaseDir/figures/extends.pdf}} |
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| 24 | 1 | </pre> |
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| 25 | 1 | Same for including tables, code listings for programming courses, my institutes logo etc. |