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Zilles, Craig Bailey, Jacob 2018-09-04T20:31:55Z 2018-09-04T20:31:55Z 2018-04-25 2018-05 In this thesis, I describe uAssign, an assignment system for teaching and assessing command line terminal skills. It allows an instructor to create terminal assignments where students complete a sequence of operations to achieve a goal correctly that can be automatically graded. Assignments can be randomized, and are created to an instructor's specification. uAssign provides a friendly user interface to a Docker container via an in-browser terminal emulator powered by WebSockets. Performance testing and its use in an ongoing course show that it is efficient enough to handle a large number of concurrent users. A survey of students shows significant improvement in terminal skill confidence after using uAssign and provides interesting insight into the preferences and opinions of freshman-level students on the subject of their development workflows and terminal experience. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2018-08-31 without embargo terms The student, Jacob Bailey, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-25 at 09:42. The student, Jacob Bailey, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-04-25 at 09:48. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-04-25 at 12:59. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12471 on 2018-08-31 at 17:14:38 Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-04T20:31:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 BAILEY-THESIS-2018.pdf: 872347 bytes, checksum: 0a1cc19616bd8d6580c0cd6233353aa4 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4208 bytes, checksum: 1e0b925c7d25ca8dfe2a2f78ca2a0dec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-25 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/101068 en Copyright 2018 Jacob Bailey unix terminal docker containers teaching websockets browser prairielearn uAssign: Scalable and flexible interactive activities for teaching the UNIX terminal text text Computer Science Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.