Assignment Submission Instructions

Enthusiastic Hugo User — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 11:13:58 AEDT

Q: How and when should I submit the assignments?
A: Online, (almost) every Monday 9am …

Assignment due

9am the Monday after the corresponding lecture / tutorial.

Each assignment consist of a small list of tasks that are structured around the corresponding lectures, and we expect many students to be able to complete the weekly assignment in a few hours.

Note:

Lab 1 and 2 are both due on the Monday of week 3.
See here for Grading Scheme, Late Policy and Collaboration Policy.

Submission procedure

Assignment submission and grade returns are done via the course wattle site https://wattlecourses.anu.edu.au/course/view.php?id=19302

Format and Naming of your submission file

When you are done with the assignment, export your blocks.

From Snap!, use the “export blocks” (or export project … ) menu item as necessary, and then copy-paste the xml code into a plain text editor, save it with a filename in the format of

u1234567_labX_*.xml

Here “u1234567” is your ANU UID, “labX” with X=2, 3, 4, … denotes which assignment it is, and the “*” symbol can be any string that help you distinguish the submission file (e.g. final, submit, version3, … ).

Submission in any other format will not be accepted. If you have questions about how to save the submission file, ask the tutors/lecturers for guidance.

Testing your submission

As always, test your submission file – to make sure everything that should be included is indeed (correctly) included!

To do so:

Start a fresh chrome/chronium session
Load the project for the corresponding lab.
Use the “import … ” function from Snap! to load your submission file containing the blocks.

Now run these blocks – make sure they work as expected.

Running Snap! on your laptop?

Enthusiastic Hugo User — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:13:58 AEDT

Q: “Can I run Snap! on my personal computer, or some other computer outside of the lab?”
A: Yes of course! – and we’re including another tip for saving and loading your programs.

Simply point your browser (the latest version of Chrome preferred) to a Snap! instance, such as https://artofcomputing.cecs.anu.edu.au/snap/snap.html and you are good to go!

What you are looking at is a blank Snap! instance, you may wonder how to load/save your work in Snap!, or look at pre-existing programs, as what we did in the warm-up excercise.

Open the Snap! environment via this link, it will automatically load a simple program into the middle gray space. Notice that the ‘program’ consists of a series of blocks colored differently based on their functions. Press the gree flag on its top, or on the upper right-hand-corner of the your browser window to start the program. (With your computer speaker on!), see/hear what happens .

Now open this link, excute the program as above. Can you see/hear how this three-part canon is built from the part above?

The first way is to load the program from a file saved on your computer in so-called xml format. If you click on the paper icon at the upper left hand side of the Snap! window, you will see a menu item that says “Import …” (see picture below). Click on it, and you will be presented with a file chooser. Choose your local xml file, wait, and voila! - the program appears in your workspace.

Now with test your setup with the Canon in the warm-up programs.

Save the program xml somewhere to your computer, e.g. the desktop. http://snap.berkeley.edu/snapsource/demo/kanon.xml.
Load this program via the “Import … ” menu, test that it runs.
Change something in the program, and then user “export project … ” to save your work to disk.

The second way is by encoding the URL that contain the program - i.e., the keyword “#open:” followed by an ULR to the xml file. For example, as was done in the warm-up excercise: http://artofcomputing.cecs.anu.edu.au/snap/snap.html#open:http://snap.berkeley.edu/snapsource/demo/kanon.xml.

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Assignment Submission Instructions

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Running Snap! on your laptop?