Authoring Best Practices
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Perl Code
In the future any problems submitted to the OPL will need to have `perltidy` applied to them.
Macros
- Within the problem loadmacros should only be called once, with all of the necessary macros listed one per line.
- Any macros that are not used by the problem should be removed when copying code from another problem.
- The first macro loaded should be PGstandard.pl, which loads the following macros, so none of them should be explicitly loaded.
- PG.pl
- PGbasicmacros.pl
- PGanswermacros.pl
- PGauxiliaryFunctions.pl
- customizeLaTeX.pl
- The last macro loaded should be PGcourse.pl.
MathObjects and PGML
- Any newly authored problem should use MathObjects and PGML
| Obsolete Technique | Current Technique |
|---|---|
| Old answer checkers (e.g. `num_cmp`, `fun_cmp`, `str_cmp` | MathObjects answer checkers |
| `BEGIN_TEXT`/`END_TEXT` | `BEGIN_PGML`/`END_PGML` |
