CS 3723 Programming Languages   Spring 2014
Submission of Recitations

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    (for all recitations and nothing else)

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    (for everything else: questions, etc.)

When you send email to either of the above addresses, you implicitly give permission for me to send email to you at the address you use. The UTSA administration has no access to email at either of these addresses.

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• Subject Header in Email: Your header line for Recitation 0 should be: "R0, <your last name>, <your first name>", where you put in your actual last name and first name. Thus a student named Bruce Wayne should use
  R0, Wayne, Bruce
  for the subject line.

  If Bruce Wayne works together with another student named Bruce Banner, the two students together should submit Recitation 3 with

  R3, Wayne, Bruce; Banner, Bruce
  as the subject line. (Students in either order. Only one submission should be made for both students.)

  You should also copy the same subject header as the first line of your submission. Sample Submission.

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• Individuals, or Teams of At Most Two: If you don't work by yourself, then a team of two (but never more than two) is allowed in this course. For two students to submit as a team, they must work together during one of the regular time slots for the week of the particular recitation. There are no other circumstances under which two students may submit a joint recitation. One of the students will submit the recitation by email, but both names must appear at the head of the submission. Both students must have signed up as a pair on the regular sign-in sheet. The particular pairing into teams can change from week to week.

  Despite wanting to allow teams of two, I see negatives about such teams, since one member can do much or all of the work and get much or all of the benefit. This would show up on the exams. A team of three is much worse, and that's why I don't want to allow teams of three or more. I emphasize that working by yourself is always permitted.

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• Form of Submissions: I prefer submissions that are a single text file (.txt).   Absolutely no WORD or Zip files (no .doc, no .zip files), nothing created with Microsoft Wordpad, no Rich Text Format files (.rtf), and no binary files. HTML and PDF are fine. If you work in Windows, you could use Notepad, but must be careful to save as "text only" (.txt).

  If you would normally want to submit several files, you can concatenate them into one file (preferred), or you can attach them as separate files (acceptable).

  I recognize that it will sometimes be annoying to write answers to recitation requirements as a text file, particularly for mathematical formula. You should not worry about making these answers good-looking or neat.

  Submissions for a recitation should not contain extraneous or excessive material, but should be limited to the recitation requirements.

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• Deadlines: Each recitation has a full credit due date and time, usually Tuesday at midnight during the week after the recitation. After that there is a 75% credit due date and time, usually Friday at midnight during the week after the recitation. Following the second deadline, the recitation is not good for any credit.

  I intend to be strict about these deadlines. If some special problem comes up, that is what the 75% fallback credit is for, and if a special problem keeps you from meeting the second deadline, you just shouldn't have cut it that close, and it is only one out of 12 or 13 recitations. In the end, you should send something to meet the deadlines even if it is not complete.

  For the deadline I will use the timestamp on the email, which should be when the email is processed. There could be a delay between when you submit the email and the timestamp, but I hope this won't be a problem.

  It is permissible to submit the recitation in time for the first deadline, and then to submit a better version in time for the second deadline. Your grade in this case will be the better of the two grades for the two submissions. In case of multiple submissions for the same deadline, only the latest will be graded, although all will be archived.

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• Programs with Runs: I will often have you submit computer programs as part of recitation assignments. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, program source must always be submitted, and it must always be followed by the results of a run.