MEA Quizz

MEA Quizz is a web application for quiz creation and administration built in PHP during the first year of the DUT at Université Paris-Est Créteil. The project ran May–June 2020 and was the first named product in Mike's record, predating the GitHub account's earliest commits by two months.

Scope

The LinkedIn description is explicit about the assignment: "a university project during the first year of the DUT in computer science aimed at putting into practice our skills in PHP. The objective was to build a complete quiz creation site for teachers, allowing their students to answer the questions posed."

The two-role structure (teachers author quizzes, students take them) demonstrates early exposure to multi-user web application patterns. Authentication, authorization, and persistence were all required to make the two sides of the quiz relationship work. The scope was constrained but complete.

Public Artifact

The project was hosted at dwarves.iut-fbleau.fr/~badarou/WIM_2/Projet/MEA_Quizz/, a university server under the Fontainebleau IUT subdomain. The path fragment WIM_2 indicates the course code under which the project was delivered. The ~badarou/ pattern is a traditional UNIX-style personal user directory, suggesting UPEC provisioned students with per-user web hosting.

A GitHub repository (MEA_QUIZZ) was uploaded in July 2020, two months after the project ended, in a batch with SNAKE (C) and SUDOKU (Java). The batch upload suggests the repositories were created to archive coursework after the fact rather than to track development as it happened.

Position in Trajectory

MEA Quizz is the earliest product-shaped artifact in the record: a complete application with a user-facing concept, not a command-line exercise. It predates the mobile applications of the ESIPE Student Era by three years and the commercial products of the Solo Founder Era by five. The instinct to build full user-facing applications rather than stopping at toy exercises is already present in this first-year assignment.