We will be using electronic turnin on orcas/sanjuan for programming assignments. Note that this is different from what you would have used in cse142 or cse143 - the turnin is not through a web page; instead you will use the shell command turnin to submit your solutions. The process is very simple. All you need to do is set up your environment correctly and use a shell command to submit all your files for a given assignment.

Setting Up Your Account
You must properly prepare your environment in order to use the electronic turnin program (change your .cshrc, .mycshrc, .kshrc, or whatever other startup file you are using):

Set environment variable SUB_cse378 to AA if you are in quiz section AA (the one meeting at 12:30 on Thursdays), or to AB if you are in that quiz section (meeting at 1:30). For example:
    setenv SUB_cse378 AA

Using turnin
Once your environment is properly set up, you may  man turnin  to get more details about the program. Also, turnin -h  will list a summary of each command-line option. The most important features of turnin will be discussed here.
 

• Turning In Your Files

Here is an example of how to turn in one file, assuming itoa.s is the name of the file that you want to submit for assignment 2:

    orcas% turnin itoa.s
    Compressing submitted files... please wait
    Your files have been submitted to cse378, assignment2 for grading.

You can also turnin multiple files (will be useful later in the course) as follows. Suppose file1.s, file2.s, file3.c and README are the four files that you want to turnin. You can do this by saying:

    orcas% turnin file1.s file2.s file3.c README
    Compressing submitted files... please wait
    Your files have been submitted to cse378, assignment4 for grading.
 

• Looking At The Files You Have Turned In

You may check the files you have turned in by using the -v option:

    orcas% turnin -v
    rw------- 10942/378 1301 Mar 30 21:51 1994 file1.s
    rw------- 10942/378 30675 Mar 30 21:52 1994 file2.s
    rw------- 10942/378 3525 Mar 30 21:52 1994 file3.c
    rw------- 10942/378 393 Mar 30 21:52 1994 README

If this doesn't make you feel better, you may actually look at the compressed tar file that was submitted - it will be in /cse/courses/cse378/turnin.
 

• Miscellaneous Features
• You may find out for which projects submissions are permitted and which is the default project by using the -l option of turnin:

 
        orcas% turnin -l
        Current projects for cse378:
        assignment2        on (current)
 
• If for some reason submissions are turned on for a project other than the one to which you want to submit (this will happen when, for instance, I forget to enable submissions for a new assignment), you may use the -p option to specify the project:

 
        orcas% turnin -p assignment2 ...
 
• If you use the same turnin program for more than one course, you will be prompted for the course you are submitting to. To avoid this prompt, you can use the -c option to specify the course and quiz section:


   orcas% turnin -c cse378=AB ...

1. You are responsible for keeping all submitted files in a separate subdirectory until your assignment is graded, and for presenting them in case your original submission is lost.
2. Successive submissions for a project replace previous submissions for the same project. Feel free to submit several versions up to the project deadline, but remember that only your last submission will be looked at for grading.
3. Submissions will automatically be turned off at the time the project is due. No late submissions will be accepted.
4. You can always do man turnin to clear your doubts about the turnin program.