CS 410 -- Software Systems -- Spring 01

Homework Submission Rules

When

Each programming assignment will have an announced submission dealine. With each hour of lateness you lose a 168th of the credit. Thus, you lose all credit if you are a week late.

Everybody's worst homework grade will be deleted, but not the last homework grade. However, you should save this for emergencies, since no personal exceptions will be given for illness, etc. If you had serious excuse (e.g. documented illness) not to do the last homework then the final exam's weight will be increased from 30% to 40%, and your total homework's weight will be decreased from 50% to 40%.

How

Suppose your homework 3 is in files sort.doc, sort.c, answers.txt, sort.data. Put them into directory named 03 (not hw3, or anything else!). Make sure directory 03 contains nothing else. Change into the parent directory of directory 03. Type:

 gsubmit cs410 03 

You must be on csa, using your own account when you turn in the homework, otherwise this will not work. To check that the submitted homework has been received, write

 gsubmit cs410 -ls 

This will show what files you have submitted. You are responsible for checking that this process works for you and to ask for help if it does not. Other uses of the gsubmit program are:

• looking at the grade for homework 3:

   gsubmit cs410 -cat GRADE-03 > GRADE-03 

• deleting a submitted file:

   gsubmit cs410 -rm 03/answers.txt

• viewing the content of submitted files (e.g. for comments) or files created by the graders (e.g. grade files):

   gsubmit cs410 -cat filename > filename.view 

• resubmitting files (this overwrites the one submitted earlier, if it has the same name and changes the submission date):
• removing a submitted file or directory:

   gsubmit cs410 -rm filename

• correcting your personal data:

   gsubmit cs410 -rm HEADER

• submitting a file (or directory) file1 into an already submitted subdirectory dir1:

   gsubmit cs410 -cp file1 dir1

See the manual page

 man gsubmit 

for examples.

What to turn in

• A single file called answers.txt containing the solution to all non-programming assignments. If there were no programming assignments you can stop here.
• Each source file: if it is a perl code, its top line must have

   #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w.

• Each data file used in the test runs, normally with an extension .dat.
• With each programming assignment, a documentation file. If the name of the program is sort, the name of the documentation file must be sort.doc. The documentation should describe
  • What the program does.
  • How to compile it (if it needs compiling). In case of C programs, an error- and warning-free compilation of each program (use "gcc" to compile a program, with the flags "-ansi" and "-Wall") is required.
  • How did you run it and test it.
  • What are its limitations.

Programming Homework Format Guidelines