Using the turnin program

The turnin program is used to turn in each assignment. It is used from the command line on CS department linux machines.

From department Linux machines:

If you wrote your code on a CS department linux machine, then execute something like the following at the command line:

cd assignment1
turnin --submit edwardsj assignment1 *
turnin --list edwardsj assignment1

• Line 1 gets you into the directory with your assignment files.
• Line 2 submits your assignment files to turnin. The * at the end says all files in the directory will be submitted. If you don't want to submit all files (even though it doesn't matter if you submit extra files) you can replace the * with something like file1.cpp file2.cpp *.h written.txt.
• Line 3 shows you all files that you have submitted. Make sure you didn't forget any files or they won't be graded!

From some other machine:

If you've been doing your development on some other machine, then you'll have to add a few steps to the procedure above:

1. If you don't have a CS department account, you should request a new account.
2. Transfer your files to a CS department linux machine.
   • Windows: There are a couple of ways to do this, but the easiest is probably to use the Secure Shell FTP program that comes bundled with Bevoware (it's also installed on many lab computers around campus). Run the program, connect to a CS department machine of your choice with your CS login, and transfer the files to your CS account.
   • OS X or Linux: Again, there are multiple ways to do this. One simple way is to use the scp command from a terminal window. scp works just like cp, but you can use it to copy files to a remote machine. For example, you could type
     scp BigInt.cc jimbob@boom.cs.utexas.edu:~
     to copy the file BigInt.cc to the home directory (that's what the tilde character stands for) of the user jimbob on the machine boom.cs.utexas.edu.
3. Log on to a CS department linux machine using your CS department login. You can do this at a lab or remotely, via SSH or VNC.
4. Follow the steps above that describe how to use the turnin program.