UMBC CS 202, Fall 2001

CMSC 202
Programming Project Zero

out 4 September 2001
due 11 September 2001

The Objective

To make sure each of you can submit a project using the submit program. This is not simply a test of whether you can follow the directions for submitting projects, but also to make sure that the course staff has made an area available to each of you, individually, to hold your project files.

An Explanation

You will be submitting all of your projects using the submit program. For Project 0, it doesn't matter what you submit, so to save space, you will create an empty file and submit it.

The Task

At the unix prompt, give the following two commands:

touch proj0.cpp
submit cs202 proj0 proj0.cpp

The command touch proj0.cpp creates an empty file called proj0.cpp. The submit command has four parts: the command submit, followed by the class name, followed by the name of the project, followed by the name(s) of the file(s) to be submitted.

After entering these commands, you should get a confirmation that submit worked okay. Specifically, the confirmation will say:
Submitting proj0.cpp...OK

If not, first make sure that you are registered in the course. Your instructor may give you permission to add the course even though it is officially closed. If you are registered but cannot submit, send email to the course coordinator (bbenin1@cs.umbc.edu) about the problem. In this email, show exactly what you typed in and the exact message that was displayed.

You can check your submission by entering submitls cs202 proj0
You should see the name of the file that you just submitted -- in this case, proj0.cpp .

Warning

Although this project carries 0 points and does not count toward your grade, you must do this project. If you do not do the project, you will get no mercy if you cannot submit future projects.