- Method of submission
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Programming (and other) homework is to be submitted
by e-mail to casper©unbc·ca. Homework questions are usually posed
in class without a particular due date stated. However, eventually a
due date will be attached to each question, and homework must be
submitted by e-mail before the due date.
Homework should be submitted from your unbc e-mail
account. Technical difficulties with unbc mail agents
are reasonable excuses for late or lost assignments; technical
diffulties with other mail agents are not; nor can you be certain
that unbc software will not classify such mail as spam.
- Form of submission
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Programming assignments should generally be attached to an e-mail
message as a plain text file or as part of
an archive
(see below).
- File names
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(See the following section for comments on appropriate file
extensions.) File names should have a format similar to
DavidCasperson-5-binaryPowering.sml
that is, first name then last name then an identification of the
problem that it solves. Spaces in file names are acceptable, but
please do not use other white space characters, slashes, multiple
periods, non-ascii characters and the like.
- File format
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Programming assignment files should be
plain text files containing only ascii
characters. Please do not send me Microsoft Word
documents or Html formatted files.
Standard ML
programs the file should have a
.sml
extension; Scheme programs should have
a .scm extension; Prolog
programs should have a
.pl
extension; and textual answers to questions should have
a
.txt
extension.
The line-ending convention is a matter of your convenience. I would
prefer unix-style line endings,
but dos/windows style line-endings or
(old) Mac-style line endings are all acceptable, provided
that the file consistently only uses one.
Commenting need not be verbose, but should exist. It is a very good
practice to have internal comments identifying the author, course,
assignment number and file name of the file in case the file becomes
accidentally lost, mangled, renamed, or otherwise mishandled.
- Archives
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Frequently it may be convenient to submit multiple files with the same
e-mail message. Although multiple attachments are allowed, I would
prefer an archive (preferably
tarred and
gzipped .tgz files, but .zip
files and other archive formats that have
free Mac-friendly software for unpacking are allowed).
Archives that unpack into a relative directory are preferred.
- Cheating:
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First offenses result in a grade of -100% on
the assignment in question and formal notification of the College Dean.
Allowing someone to copy
your work is cheating. The
UNBC Calendar describes academic
offenses and possible penalties in more detail.
Last year's class had many similar homework problems. It is your
responsibility to inform me if you have consulted with members of last
year's class or collaborated with your class-mates in finding
solutions to homework exercises.
