"Edward Beneke" [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

I'm a little confused on the submission requirements, there seem to be two conflicting interpretations of the submission guidelines that are reasonable to me:

1. You must submit a .zip file containing only a src directory with the same structure as the project template (see attached) containing only .java files:

• Submit src.zip (which, when unzipped contains only the 'src' directory and sub-directories)
• Submit project.zip (which, when unzipped contains only an 'src' directory inside the project folder)

From the testing guide, it seems more reasonable to me to submit a src.zip (since that works with the: unzip src.zip, cd src, javac **/*.java, java test.Test) but I know others have disagreed with me on this.

Can you please clarify whether we should be submitting: src.zip OR project.zip? :) Thanks :)

Firstly, no specification as to the file name for the .zip is given, so I assume you are just using src.zip and project.zip as example names for the two options.

In my opinion, the instructions are clear and unambiguous. They say to submit a .zip containing only a src directory with the same structure as the project template (which is itself a zip containing only a src directory).

A zip such as the project.zip you describe would not contain only the src directory. It would contain a project directory, that then contains the src directory. Notably this is not the same structure as the provided project template. I do not see how the instructions could be interpreted to mean this. If I am missing something, please do explain how the instructions as written could be interpreted this way.

The instructions very clearly say that failure to adhere to the submission format may result in your submission being unmarkable. In practice our markers attempt to fix simple errors like this, so long as they can be fixed fairly and consistently for everyone. I cannot know ahead of time all the different ways that students might not adhere to the submission requirements, so at this time I cannot guarantee that we will mark anything other than a correctly formatted submission. As a result I strongly encourage you to read the instructions carefully and submit in the correct format. In the extreme case it may save your mark. In the more typical case it at least saves our markers from having to manually fix your misformatted submission.

I have added a clarification to the instructions specifying that the provided project.zip is an example of correct submission format.

Gozz

Hi Gozz - thanks for the clarity (I do concede the way you wrote it was clear - it was my error for not realising the project.zip actually unzipped immediately to a src directory, I had initially thought it unzipped to a project directory containing a src directory).

Thanks :)

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