Dynamic random coding questions?

[Zane Hutchens]

I've been reading the pretext documentation and found that random questions could be generated for fill in the blank using the <setup> tag, but I haven't been able to find if this is applicable for coding questions. Would anyone happen to know if this is possible?

Thanks!

[Andrew Scholer]

The closest analog would be to use random values in a unit test for a program. The prompt to the user would not be randomized. But the data the program was tested with could be:

https://pretextbook.org/doc/guide/html/topic-program.html#interactive-program-activecode-tests

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM Zane Hutchens <zhu...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been reading the pretext documentation and found that random questions could be generated for fill in the blank using the <setup> tag, but I haven't been able to find if this is applicable for coding questions. Would anyone happen to know if this is possible?

Thanks!

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