CS201 Submit Guide

The submit program allows students to send files to a central location for grading by the instructor or teaching assistant. You must be registered in the course to use submit. There is also FAQ website for this system (if needed): http://www.cs.montana.edu/cgi-bin/adminfaq/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq05.001.htp

Do Once

Create an alias in your account to run the submit command.

Remember, you must ssh to esus to use submit.

If you are using bash (this is default shell on esus!), type in the following:
1. $ alias submit=/home/projects/submit201/bin/submit
2. $ export submit
If you are using csh or tcsh, do the following:
1. % alias submit /home/projects/submit201/bin/submit

You only have to do this once if you put the alias definition in your .bash_profile file (for bash) or .cshrc file (for csh). I suggest you put it near the end of the file.

Do For Each Submittal

Create all your files for an assignment in a separate directory. I suggest that you create one directory for each assignment in your cs201 directory (lab1, lab2, etc.).

ssh to esus
go to the appropriate assignment's directory
Execute the following command:
$ submit cs201s06# labN
Where # is 2 for lab section 02, 3 for lab section 03 and 4 for lab section 04 and the N in labN is a current laboratory number. For example, if you were in lab section 02 and you wanted to submit the first lab (lab1), do the following:
$ submit cs201s062 lab1
There are some query commands you can use.

$ submit -h Gives you help on the submit command
$ submit -l List the submit information for the current semester.
$ submit -v cs201s052 lab1 If you add the -v option, you get all the warning messages.

BEFORE RUNNING SUBMIT:
- Do a list of the files in your directory and be sure you have all the files specified in the assignment.
NOTE: Don't destroy anything until the end of the semester. This is our fourth time we are using submit, and we need to have a back up position of looking at your account for source files.

Notes

Each submittal overwrites the previous one.
Each submittal attempt is "logged" with a notation as to whether it was successful or unsuccessful.

Late Submittals

I would hope you know by now what is my policy on late assignments... There are no late assignments!

Acceptance Scripts

NOTE: This semester, we are running acceptance scripts on your assignments. This means that an automatic script will try to compile and run your programs.

If you don't supply the correctly named files, the submittal will fail.
If your program doesn't compile, the submittal will fail.
If your program doesn't run, the submittal will fail.
Some of the scripts will compare your output to an expected output. If your output doesn't match, the submittal will fail.