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Electronic homework submission instruction (CS554)

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• Submission file formats
  • We must limit the acceptable file format to simplify grading.

    The acceptable file formats are:

    One or more PDF files One of more JPG (image) files A combination of the above (some files can be PDF and some files can be JPG)

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• Prelude: your cs554 project directory
  • At the start of the semester, the tech staff has created a cs554 directory inside your home directory

  • Since I don't assign projects in CS554, you did not need to use this special cs554 directory. But, now you do...

  • The cs554 has special owner and group permission setting that allow you to store files (in this case: PDF and/or JPG files for homeworks) that others cannot access.

  • To turn in homework files electronically, you will need to put your homework files inside your cs554 directory !

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• How to submit your homework electonically
  • I have provided the following command that let your copy a homework file to the cs5540001 grader account:

    /home/cs554001/turnin

    This command takes 2 arguments:

    the file name of the homework file that you want to turn in a homework code

    Example:

    Example 1: /home/cs554001/turnin hw6-1.pdf hw6-1 This will copy the file "hw6-1.pdf" to the grader account and tag it with the homework code "hw6-1" Example 2: /home/cs554001/turnin hw6-2.jpg hw6-2 This will copy the file "hw6-1.jpg" to the grader account and tag it with the homework code "hw6-2"

    This command can only be run on a MathCS lab workstation

    This command will copy a homework file stored within your cs554 to the grader account and tag it with a specific code.

  • Suppose you want to submit the homework hwX (hwX can be hw6, hw7, etc).

    I recommend you do the following:

    Do your homework on paper and scan your work into one or more PDF or JPG files. (If you can, you can do the homework electronically and export the result to PDF or JPG). Create a sub-directory ~/cs554/hwX to store your homework files for hwX Upload your homework files to the sub-directory ~/cs554/hwX Turn your works in using one or more turnin commands (depending on how many files you have created): /home/cs554001/turnin fileName1 hwX-1 /home/cs554001/turnin fileName2 hwX-2 Use the numeric code 1, 2, 3, etc to label the files so that when we grade the homework files, the questions are answered in sequence ! If you do the homework on your own paper (and not on the homework print out), you should/must also label your answer with question number !

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• How to find out WHAT FILES you have submitted ?

  • The /home/cs554001/turnin command has another usage.

    When you invoke this command without any arguments, it will list the files and the corresponding turn in code that is stored in the grader account.

    However: this form must be executed on lab0z !!

    Example:

    cheung@lab0z> /home/cs554001/turnin lists the following output in my test case: Your Emory NetID = cheung Our records show that you have turned in the following: ========================================================== /* From cheung: file `/home/cheung/cs554/x' as hw6-1 |x| */ /* From cheung: file `/home/cheung/cs554/capture.jpg' as hw6-2 |capture.jpg| */

    When you execute this form on an ordinary lab workstation, you will get an error.