COMP 480 Problem Solving with Computing

How to Best Organize and Submit Your Work

Here is some guidance to help you organize your work in this class. This is not required of course, but just a suggestion on how you might keep track of your files and assignments on your own computer.

The basic idea will be to have a top-level comp480 directory (folder). Do all of your programming/development work in a folder named develop and create another folder play for experimenting with Python, trying out new things, or simply playing around.

Create a separate folder for each category of work you will be turning in during the term: homework, labs, and papers. Below these you will have a separate folder for each specific assignment. Do not place any extra files into these folders to avoid losing points in case the wrong item gets evaluated.

Suggested Folder Structure for COMP 480

develop - do all of your real work here, e.g., homework, labs etc.

homework, labs, papers - place your *completed* work here -- *no* extra-files

play - use to try out new things, experiment, play around with Python etc.


comp480
  |
  +-- develop
  |
  +-- homework
  |   |-- hw1
  |   |-- hw2
  |   .
  |   .
  |   .
  |   `-- hw8
  |
  +-- labs
  |   |-- lab1
  |   |-- lab2
  |   .
  |   .
  |   .
  |   `-- lab10
  |
  +-- papers
  |   |-- paper1
  |   |-- paper2
  |   `-- paper3
  |
  `-- play

This will keep your files organized in a nice way - and you may find this a useful way to organize other classes or projects.

To submit a particular assignment, you zip up the the specific assignment folder (assuming you are submitting more than one document/file) and submit it to the dropbox. If you are submitting a single document/program, submit it without zipping a directory etc.

Mail me at Ansaria@franklin.edu with comments and/or questions.