EECS 338 Quiz Hacker

This is an attempt to hack Dr. Loui's word-filling quiz with an amateur string-similarity searching approach.

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Disclaimers

The content is intend for and only for the private use of the author, its GitHub appearance is for the pure purpose of version control.

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Run

1. Copy and paste the quiz content into input.txt.
2. Modify the value of last_name_first_vowel in quiz_hacker.py as you desired (as type str).
3. Paste a plain text copy of your textbook into textbook.txt. In the case of EECS 338, we use Operating System Concepts (Ninth Edition) by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne, but it should be compatible with any source.
4. cd into the working directory of EECS 338 Quiz Hacker.
5. Run the following command to avoid synchronizing the content within textbook.txt to GitHub, for copyright concerns.

git update-index --assume-unchanged textbook.txt

6. Run the following command in the terminal:

python3 quiz_hacker.py

If everything works fine, you may expect an output like:

                     _ab_e en_r_     -->     table entry
            access-cont_ol list_     -->     access-control lists
               cached a_trib_te_     -->     cached attributes
                   _cce_s r__ht_     -->     access rights
            director_ structure_     -->     directory structured
              __ee-sp_ce ma_age_     -->     free-space managed
      fi_e-system imple_entation     -->     file-system implementation
        files and subdirect_ries     -->     files and subdirectories
              i_d__ed all_catio_     -->     indexed allocation
              _llo_ation met_od_     -->     allocation methods
                  logical recor_     -->     logical record
           sy_tem-wi_e open-file     -->     system-wire open-file
             tw_-_evel directory     -->     two-level directory
                u__ated _etad_t_     -->     updated metadata
                  v_rtual _e_or_     -->     virtual record
Filled word: 15 / 15 (100.000%)