Automate Creation and Management of Problems and Assignments

[scerruti]

I am currently managing dozens of practice problems that comprise a set of sample practice problems for CS 111 at MiraCosta College.

We are converting these from Replit and anticipate continuing to add to them over time.

I would like to be able to use Gradle tasks to

1. Convert the README.md files to index.html. (I use the Python markdown module to do this manually.)
2. Zip them together with the code and test files (if present.)
3. Upload them as a problem.

The returned urls, or the ids that compose the URLs should be saved and stored in a property file. (Right now I just copy and paste text into a file.)

Other modules in the repository might represent an assignment and be dependent on a set of problems. Ideally, if any problem was modified or created then it would be built or updated on CodeCheck. Then any assignments that contained that problem would also be built. New assignments based on existing problems could also be created and the URLs or IDs could be stored in the repository.

This would make it easier for our team to collaborate on practice problems and maintain a single repository so that everyone benefits from changes and additions.