Highly specific, but in my operating systems course, we wrote a shell in C, it was very fun. I plan to write it again, but in Rust (mostly out of fun), extend it, make it my daily driver.
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Also, fancy seeing someone else from RuG here :)
Providing hints is a bit tricky, however. Often times, students fail the test case for unexpected reasons, and our hints actually mislead them. I've had students come to me (as a TA) saying that the test case is wrong because they take into account the hint.
Naturally, we could just give better test cases / give a broad disclaimer, which we try to. We do the latter, but the former is tricky, especially when we are trying to come up with novel problems.
I've found: 1. I can fit a lot of things into my day, than I assumed. 2. I often overestimate how long things take, on top of that.
Point 2 is particularly interesting, since I know if I just bang out my tasks, I'll keep find "free time" that I over-planned for. By the end of the day, I get a couple free hours to do whatever I want, and it's lovely.
It's nice since it renders the markdown while you write it, which I kinda need when writing LaTeX.
It's an offline tool, but I'm pretty much always near my laptop, so that's not much of a big deal for me. Tbh, having it offline was kinda a bonus for me.
No Vim support though, which is a bit frustrating.