Programming Assignment Submission Guidelines

All materials submitted for grading must conform to the following guidelines, failure to do so may result in loss of credit.

Academic Integrity

All programs submitted must be your own work, and you are expected to develop your programs independently. You may receive as much help as you wish on the use of the operating system, text editors, debuggers, file transfer protocols and so on. You may consult with other members of the class about interpreting the assignment, and you may get help in finding bugs, but not fixing bugs, but you are not allowed to look at or copy another person's code or discuss design decisions with others, and you cannot show your code to others. Students found to be in violation of these guidelines will fail the project, and will be reported to the dean.

What should be submitted

A Readme file describing the contents of the directory.
A Makefile with rules which will perform the following tasks:

Compile all code.
Clean up the directory, removing core files and object files.
Any other required tasks.

All source code required for the problem.
Any test files or configuration files required for the problem.
Documentation explaining the solution to the problem or answer to the question.

What should NOT be submitted

Object files. These can be recreated from the source code.
Core files. These should NOT be recreate-able from the source code.

General Guidelines

Your work should be submitted as a tar file. This file should restore the files in a directory, named after your username, containing the answer to the question, as described above.
Unless otherwise noted in the assignment notice, your answer must compile/run/work on one of the departmental machines running Linux (neptune/poseidon). If your solution is platform dependent, please note this in the Readme file.
It is the responsibility of the student to submit valid, readable tar archives to the correct address. Corrupt or incomplete files are unacceptable and may be judged incorrect.

How to create an acceptable tar file

The following example is how a user with username fred would submit a homework.

In the directory where you developed the code make a subdirectory:

mkdir fred

Move all relevant files to the new subdirectory:

mv Readme Makefile foo.c bar.c foo.h fred

Create a tarfile of the subdirectory:

tar cvf fred.tar fred

mail the tarfile to me, farrell, with mail subject "CC homework n", or "CC project n", where n is the written homework or programming project number, and attach the tar file fred.tar