Turning in a homework assignment
CS 51520
Operating Systems
Fall, 2021

Formatting your source files.

At the very beginning of each of your source files there should be a comment containing the course number, your name, and the assignment number. After this comment are your include statements. After those are your function (or class) definitions. Here is a template of how a C/C++ source file should look.

   /*
      Course: CS 51520
      Name: Jean Shepherd
      Assignment: 0

      Any other comments that you want to make...
   */
   #include <stdio.h>

   int main(int argc, char* argv[])
   {
      /* your code goes here */

   }

Your solution for an assignment may make use of several source files. What I want you to turn in to me is a zip file containing all of the source files for your solution. I want you to follow a very strict rule for naming your zip file. The name of your zip file should be of the form CS51520Hw0Surname.zip. The number between Hw and Surname is the number of the homework assignment. And Surname is of course your last name. If your surname has more than one part, concatenate the parts together so that the file name does not have any spaces in it.

Submitting your assignments.

When you are finished with your assignment, submit the zip file of your solution using the Brightspace web site for this course. After you have logged into Brightspace, go to the page for this course. Click on "Course Tools" and then click on "Assignments". That should bring up a page of the course homework assignments. Click on the name of an assignment, and that should take you to a "Submit Assignment" page where you can upload your zip file. Click on a button called "Add a File". That should bring up a file chooser dialog box. Use the file chooser to navigate to the assignment zip file that you want to submit from your computer. After you select your zip file and click on the "Add" button from this dialog box, you will be back to the "Submit Assignment" page. Click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of this page. After you have submitted your assignment, you should be at a page called "Review Assignment Submission" and your zip file should have been successfully uploaded to Brightspace.

Here is a brief video of these steps and a help page about Brightspace assignments.

Asking a question.

If your assignment is not finished but you want to send it to me in order to ask a question, then use the following procedure. Put your question in the body of an e-mail message and either put your source code in the body of the mail message, or attach your source code file to the message, or attach a zip file, whichever you think is more appropriate. The subject of the e-mail message should be of the form "Question CS 51520 Hw0". (If you attach a zip file to an e-mail message, be aware that some mail servers will not forward messages with zip file attachments. You can fool some of these mail servers by changing the extension of the zip file to something like "gif" or "png".)