ENGR 131: Problem Set Submission

More specifically, you will

1. Complete your work in files named as required, placed in a directory named as required
2. "Zip" your problem set folder/directory, which creates a single .zip file
3. Upload your zipped file to Blackboard's Digital Dropbox, using "Send File"

Note on Due Date/Time

• Problem Sets are due in the Digital Dropbox on the same date and time for all students (usually Tuesdays before lecture, i.e., by 1:15pm). Recall, that it is course policy that no late homeworks will be accepted.
• In addition to the electronic submission required of all students, some TAs (namely, David, Alex, and James; they will provide details for their sections) may require you to bring hardcopies of your problem to your lab session to hand in to them. They will then return these with comments in lab the following week. This does not increase your due date for electronic submissions. Other TAs will email you their comments.

Required Names for Files and Folders/Directories

• Place all your work in a folder/directory named using the convention of PS followed by the problem set number, followed by your last name (dropping any hyphens or apostrophes), followed by your first initial. For example,

  PS1LastnameF           [Pattern for PS1]
  PS2BranickyM           [PS2 for Michael Branicky]
  PS8OHaraS                 [PS8 for Scarlett O'Hara]
  PS11AbdulJabbarK   [PS11 for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]

• Name each program as indicated in your problem set. Store answers to other questions as plain (ASCII) text, named with the following convention:

  pr1.txt       [for a textual answer to Problem X.1 on PS#X]
  pr3out.txt [for program output as in Problem 1.3 on PS#1]

• All Java programs themselves should follow conventions for formatting and naming variables/classes. They should include proper comments. Read Section 2.14 of Liang for complete details before you start programming.

Zip'ing Files

Windows

• In Brief: On folder name, perform

       Right click, Send To -> Compressed(zipped) Folder
  

• Microsoft's own Detailed Instructions (which requires cookies!). Scroll down for your OS. For example, the Windows XP section illustrates the above-stated procedure.

MAC OS X

• In Brief: On folder name, perform

       Control Click (aka ControlKey-MouseClick) --> Create Archive of "..."
  

• Apple's own Detailed Instructions.
• Alternative for advanced users: To compress directory foo, execute at the command line (in the directory foo is stored in)

       % zip -r foo foo
  

  It will produce a new file called foo.zip in the same directory that foo resides in.

Blackboard

Digital Dropbox

Important Note:

Directions for "Send File":

• In Brief
  1. Log into the course's Blackboard site
  2. Click on "Tools" then "Digital Dropbox"
  3. Click on "Send File", "Browse .." for zipped file, and then "Submit"
• Step-by-step instructions from Case, under "Sending & Receiving Files"
• Visual step-by-step instructions