Multiple Choice Exam in C#

[TimmyC1983]

Hi there,

I'm looking to create a small Multiple Choice Exam for a side project of mine. For each question I would like there to be a text question, then a selection of four answers. The user then could submit his answer and after say 10 questions his score could be produced (you get the picture ).

Anyway I'm actually after some advise as to how to implement this. Which technique do you think I should use to store questions and answers? Database, XML, text files? Could anyone give me any tips on how to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Tim.

 

[jmeckley]

yes a database. xml & text files are not meant for this type of usage.

For the GUI I would see the user answering 1 question at a time and at the end getting the results.

I would create a controller which gets data from the domain and passes the data to the view (web page).

The domain would contain the entities:
Question
Answer
User
Quiz

where
A Quiz has many Questions which has many Answers
A Question has a correct Answer
A User has many Quizzes which has many Questions which has a Selected Answer
A User has a current Quiz with Answered and Unanswered Questions.

then I would use an ORM like ActiveRecord or NHibernate to map the domain to a database.

when the user logs in have them select a quiz. Then have them them step through each question of the quiz. when all questions are answered redirect them to the results page.

this is a high level view looking at the problem from the domains perspective.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.