Blackboard Submission Guide Visit http://www.cmu.edu/blackboard Upload your solution to the Assignment Section of blackboard. ================== 0. Your assignment may require that code be well documented. This does not mean that JavaDoc is required. It does mean that every important section of code will have an explanation in English. Variable names will be well chosen and indentation will be used where appropriate. Good documentation makes a program easier to read. Computers are cheap but developers are expensive. Future developers will have an easier time reading commented code. Of course, the author, date and project description should always be included. 1. Go to NetBeans project folder (If you can't locate it, right-click on the project, go to 'Properties', select 'Sources' under 'Categories', look under 'Project Folder') 2. Zip up the entire folder. Include screenshots if required. 3. Rename the file with your name and submit under the Assignments section in blackboard. 4. If there are issues not covered by these directions (and there often will be) then use good judgement. Put yourself in the graders position and submit your work in a way that you feel would be easy to grade at scale. If doubts remain, contact your TA or ask your instructor. Guide to successful assignment submissions ========================================== * Never submit your assignments to the digital dropbox. Always submit the assignments in the designated Assignment folder under assignments. * Implement all the parts in an assignment question. E.g. If a screenshot is to be submitted with 400 digits of precision, you are required to follow it. Screenshots with less 400 digits of precision will lose points. * Never double or triple zip your assignment submissions. i.e for one project there should be only one zip and not zip files within zip files. This does not apply to files that are automatically zipped (such as .war files). * Regarding the one week optional extension, your first late submission will take off your one week even it was late by only a few seconds. Any late submission after the first time will lose 10% of grade every day. Hence if you submitted project 2 late by 2 days and project 4 by 5 days, you will use up the one week optional extension on project 2 and in project 5 you will lose 50% of our grade. * Any questions or complaints regarding the grading should reach the TA's within one week of receiving feedback from the TA. See the TA first and try to resolve the issue. If there is still a concern see your instructor without delay. * If you are having trouble with a particular problem, don't try to solve it. Instead, contrive a new, simpler problem and solve it instead. Then, look back at the original problem and attempt to solve it. Of course, you can only take this type of approach if you start early.