COP 4530 Spring 2014: Assignment submission

The programming component of assignments should be submitted as described below, unless we mention otherwise.

• Programming assignments: Programming components of assignments are due by end of day 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/TC14/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 hwX, where X is the homework number. For example, create a directory called hw2 for homework 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 hwX.tar * in the hwX directory. Then submit the tar file as explained in http://help.blackboard.com/student/Content/_student/student_assignments.htm. Details are also given below.
     1. Log on to blackboard
     2. Click on the course (Theory of Computing)
     3. Click on Assignments
     4. Click on the assignment number.
     5. You have to submit your tar file as an attachement. Click on Browse my computer and select the file.
     6. Click on submit
        • NOTE: If you don't perform all the above steps, then your file will not be submitted!
  5. Keep a copy of all your files on the CS file server, and do not make any modifications to your files after the deadline 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.

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Last modified: 26 Dec 2013