CS211a Assignment Submission

CS2211 Assignment Submission Guidelines

Your assignments are to be submitted electronically. Online submissions may be checked for similarity.

An assignment may contain two parts.

1. Conceptual Questions: The TA's will mark the pdf file submitted for this part of your assignment. See the submission details below.

2. Progarmming Questions: The TA's will check your assignment code on the course linux VM cs2211 (cs2211.gaul.csd.uwo.ca) in GAUL network. You should ensure that everything works properly in the course linux VM cs2211 before submitting your assignment.

What to Submit Electronically

Please follow these directions precisely :

in your home directory, create a subdirectory called cs2211
in that subdirectory, create a subdirectory for each assignment. For example, create a subdirectory called asn1
in the subdirectory for the assignment (e.g. asn1), put the following files:

the assignment submission form SubmForm.txt (download from our web page and then fill)
the answer.pdf file, if any, for the conceptual questions
the .c file(s), if any, for the C exercises
the .h file(s). if any, for the C exercises
the Makefile and README, if any, for the C exercises
the shell script program files required in the UNIX shell exercises
the output files from unix script command of screen captures of unix shell exercises and C exercises (see Screen Capture and Scriptfix information below)

to submit your assignment files, get to your cs2211 subdirectory
and then type the following commands (for Assignment 1)

tar cvf asn1.tar asn1

gzip asn1.tar

This will generate a file called asn1.tar.gz that contains all of the files in your asn1 subdirectory. You will submit this file to the cs2211a assignment submission area in OWL. (You should delete any unnecessary files from your subdirectory before generating asn1.tar.gz, especially a file named core!)

Notes. Online Submission:

You may resubmit your online copy a second or third time if you decide to revise it; only the last one will be used.
You will get an email receipt of your submission, so that you know it arrived at its destination safely. Please keep all the confirmation emails until the end of this term.

Screen Capture: To capture screen output, type

    script filename
    ...
    ...     (type your commands as usual)
    exit
This will create a printable file with the name that you specified (as filename) that contains everything that appeared on the screen between the time that you typed the command script and the command exit.
You may also append to an existing script file by using the command    script -a filename.
For each screen capture, before the commands for the exercise, type the following three commands:

the pwd command (to show the directory path to your assignment subdirectory)
the date command (to show the date and time of your run)
the who am i command (to show your user name)

Note that backspaces will show up in the script file; see the section on the Scriptfix utility below.

Scriptfix utility

There is a handy program called scriptfix on GAUL, that will clean up your script files by taking out backspaces and the characters that precede them. A clean looking script file will make your TA happy! Use it as follows:

scriptfix script.ugly > script.nice