COP 4530 Spring 2008: Assignment submission

Assignments should be submitted as described below, unless we mention otherwise.

• Written assignments: Written assignments are due by 5:15 pm on the due date. You should submit hardcopies of your answers by one of the following means: (i) place it in my mailbox in LOV 253, (ii) hand it to me or to the TA directly, (iii) fax it to me at 850-644-0058, or (iv) slip it under my office door at LOV 169.

• Programming assignments: Programming assignments are due by midnight on the due date. You may resubmit your assignment before the deadline, if you correct some error you discovered after the previous submission. But please do not submit more than three times. If you resubmit your assignment, we will use the latest submission to grade you. The time of submission will also be considered the time the latest version was submitted. For example, if your first submission was before the deadline, but your last one was after the deadline, then your assignment will be considered late. You should do the following, to submit your programming assignment.
  1. You should maintain a development log for your program. This will mention a list of features you implemented, bugs you fixed, and other significant changes you made, each day that you worked on the code. If you received help from others (you are allowed to get a small amount of help from others for debugging your code, though you may not copy any code), please list that too in the development log. This will be a plain ASCII text file, called LOG.txt. An example is available at www.cs.fsu.edu/~asriniva/courses/DS08/LOG.txt.
  2. Make sure that your code compiles and runs correctly. We will test your code on linprog (a Linux PC), using the g++ compiler. Your code should work correctly on this machine, and so you may want to develop your code on it.
  3. You should create a directory called projX, where X is the project number. For example, create a directory called proj2 for programming assignment 2. Copy all required files for your assignment (typically a Makefile, a LOG.txt file, and .cpp and .h files) to this directory. Do not copy executables.
  4. Create a tar file for this assignment by executing: tar cvf projX.tar * in the projX directory. Then submit the tar file as follows.
     1. Log on to blackboard
     2. Click on the course (Data Structures)
     3. Click on Student Tools
     4. Click on Digital Dropbox
     5. Click on Add File
     6. On the field Name write your name and the number of the assignment
     7. On the File field, write the path to your file (or browse it using the browse button)
     8. Write comments in the comments field if you need to
     9. Click Submit, and then Click OK in the popup window
     10. Click on OK in the receipt page
     11. Click on Send File
     12. On the Select Field list, select the file you need to send
     13. Click on submit
     14. Click OK on the receipt page
         • NOTE: If you don't perform all the above steps, then your file will not be submitted!
  5. Do not make any modifications to your files until the assignment is graded. That way, we will be able to tell from the timestamp on the files that you had actually completed your assignment on time, in case there is any problem with your assignment submission.