Using the turnin program

You should use the turnin program to turn in each assignment. turnin should be 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 using turnin is easy:

1. Make sure you're in the directory where your code is located. For example, type
   cd assignment1
   to change to the assignment1 directory.
2. Run turnin with the appropriate arguments. For example, if you type:
   turnin --submit nate assignment1 BigInt.cc
   the turnin program submits the file BigInt.cc to the grader named nate for the assignment called assignment1. Type
   man turnin
   at the command line on a CS department linux machine to get the manual for turnin, which describes in more detail how the turnin program works.

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.