Submission Instructions for the Theoretical Exercises

You must submit the theoretical exercises to the responsible TA who will be at the graduate students' office at the basement of the white building on the day and time of the assignment due deadline 10:00am - 11:00am. Submissions after 11:00am will be considered late. You can submit your assignments before the deadline to the professor or the TAs. If you have to submit after the assignment's deadline, you can do so only using the submit program. In this case the assignment solutions have to be scanned in clear and easily readable quality. If there is no TA at the specified day and time at the graduate students' office please report it to the course's mailing list and await further instructions from the professor of the TAs.

ATTENTION: Assignments left in any box at the basement of the white building will not be accepted.

Submission Details

The project can be submitted only electronically. Theoretical exercises can be submitted either electronically using the submit program or in hard copy to the professor or to the teaching assistants on the designated office hours on the deadline sumission day. The name of the deliverable for each of the four sets of exercises is assignment<number> where <number> is the serial number of each exercise. The name of the deliverable to each of the two phases of programming tasks is project<number> where <number> is the number of each phase. Submit the exercises to the account of the course hy240a. Below you can find the commands that shall be used to submit each one of the four sets of theoretical exercises:

  • submit assignment1@hy240a <dir>
  • submit assignment2@hy240a <dir>
  • submit assignment3@hy240a <dir>
  • submit assignment4@hy240a <dir>

Below you can find the commands that shall be used to submit each one of the two parts of the project:

  • submit project1@hy240a <dir>
  • submit project2@hy240a <dir>

where <dir> is the folder that contains all the deliverable files. The submit program does not recognize compressed files and as a result the files for delivery shall not be binary / compressed / gzipped. More information about the submit program can be found here.

Submission Instructions

  • Connect through ssh to a linux machine at the computer science department.
  • Create a folder inside your homedir(e.g. mkdir myask1) for each assignment that you want to submit. Do not use filenames that contain spaces. You should put all the files that you want to submit inside the respective folder of each assignment.
  • Execute the following command from the next folder up the folder hierarchy: submit assignment<number>@hy240a <dir> where <number> is the number of the assignment and <dir> is the name of the folder that contains the files that you want to submit (e.g. if your folder is called myask1 for the 1st assignment, you must execute the command: submit assignment1@hy240a myask1
  • In case you get the error message: "Command not found" execute the command using the full path to the submit program: /usr/local/bin/submit. The submit program compresses the student's files into a single file named after the username of the student that executes the submit command. (username.tar.gz)

The exact submission time stamp (system clock) is logged every time you execute the submit program and the submission file is assiciated with the username of the student that executed the submission.

How to check if you have successfully submitted your assignment

You can check if you have successfully submitted your assignment by issuing the following command:

ls -l ~hy240a/SUBMIT/assignment<number>

where number is the number of the assignment (e.g. ls -l ~hy240a/SUBMIT/assignment1 for the 1st assignment). If you see your username in the list that will be printed on the screen then you can be sure that you have successfully submitted your assignment. Otherwise you should try and execute again the submission commands. If the list is too big you can type in the following command instead:

ls -l ~hy240a/SUBMIT/assignment<number> | grep `whoami`

(attention on the reverse apostrophe marks `), or

ls -l ~hy240a/SUBMIT/assignment<number> | grep <your_username>

which will filter the list, showing only your submission, provided that you have made a successful one.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


1. Can I submit late assignments;
Each assignment must be turned in before the respective due date and time in order to be subject to be marked with full marks. Nevertheless you can submit an assignment for the next three days past the deadline, having as a penalty one mark (out of ten) for each late day. Exceptionally good assignments may be marked with a grade greater than 10.

2. Can I re-submit an already submitted exercise;
You can execute the submit commands any number of times for each assignment (inside the aforementioned deadlines). The system stores all your submissions with the respective numbering. Your grading will be performed based on the files you submitted the last time you executed the submit commands.

3. Can I submit seperately the different sub-questions of an exercise;
No, all your answers to all the assignment's questions must be present inside the folder of the assignment when you execute the submit commands.