Maths Compeition with Countdown Timer

Report · Jul 09, 2007

Hello everyone,

I want to create a maths competition with countdown timer for my school primary students.
When the student start the compeition (after typing their name), the 5min countdown timer will start running and all the 50 questions (randomly displayed) will be listed (either in a single page or placed across many pages). The students are to type in their answers and are not allowed to edit their answer once they submit it.

At the end of the compeition, the timer will stop and all the student's scores as well as time taken to complete will be stored in a vraiable. Teachers will be allowed to go to a certain webpage to view all the students' score and time taken. The score list shall list out the student name with the highest score and took the shortest time to the lowest score and the longest time to complete.

But I am totally new to ASP. How do I do it?
Really thanks for the help.

Report · Jul 10, 2007

> But I am totally new to ASP. How do I do it?

Umm...well, you're going to have to learn ASP, I guess.

Note that ASP is a bit of a dead language, as MS doesn't officially support
it anymore. Not that it isn't in wide spread use now and likely will be for
a while, but you may want to consider a switch to PHP or ASP.net if you are
starting from scratch.

For starters, you'll have to set up a database with several tables. One for
the questions. One for the students. One for the student's answers. Etc.

Then you'll have to create the web site using HTML and CSS. Then you'll set
up the application so a student logs in, and then receives the first
question, at which time I'd time-stamp their record in the database. Upon
each submission of a question, check the time stamp to make sure they're
still within the 5 minute limit. Then I'd probably use a javascript timer on
the page itself on ecah page load to give the end-user a real-time count of
their time remaining.

-Darrel

Report · Jul 10, 2007

Now't wrong with ASP, leave it alone 🙂 Still a damn usefull technology
even if it is a bit outdated. Oh, and who needs Microsoft's support anyway?
But as Darrel says, if your starting from scratch you may be advised to go
with a current language like .net or (if you really have to) PHP ;-)

Pat.

"darrel" <notreal@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>> But I am totally new to ASP. How do I do it?
>
> Umm...well, you're going to have to learn ASP, I guess.
>
> Note that ASP is a bit of a dead language, as MS doesn't officially
> support it anymore. Not that it isn't in wide spread use now and likely
> will be for a while, but you may want to consider a switch to PHP or
> ASP.net if you are starting from scratch.
>
> For starters, you'll have to set up a database with several tables. One
> for the questions. One for the students. One for the student's answers.
> Etc.
>
> Then you'll have to create the web site using HTML and CSS. Then you'll
> set up the application so a student logs in, and then receives the first
> question, at which time I'd time-stamp their record in the database. Upon
> each submission of a question, check the time stamp to make sure they're
> still within the 5 minute limit. Then I'd probably use a javascript timer
> on the page itself on ecah page load to give the end-user a real-time
> count of their time remaining.
>
> -Darrel
>