(Borrowed and edited from the original by Kilian Q Weinberger)

SVN Basics:

The code for this assignment will be kept in an SVN (Subversion) repository. This is a tool for managing code revisions. In this class we will be using SVN to submit code to an autograder which can give immediate feedback on your evaluation. The code is originally stored on a school server and you will need to "check out" the code to edit it locally.

To check out the code, create a directory on one of the departmental unix machines and call:

svn co https://shell.cec.wustl.edu:8443/cse417_fl14/svn/YOUR_WUSTL_KEY

You will have to enter your WUSTL Key and password.

NOTE: This can also be done on personal Linux (need to install SVN) or Mac (can be installed through Xcode) machines.

This will create a local directory called YOUR_WUSTL_KEY. This directory will contain all of the files needed for the autograder as well as the files for Homework 3 Question 1.

    * email.txt: Edit this file to contain your email address. The autograder will send your results directly to this email. If you do not want to be emailed, leave this file blank (do not delete it).
    * project3/codename.txt: This file contains one line with your codename that will appear in the automatically generated "leaderboard." You can change it to anything reasonable. (Please note that reasonable excludes java script, images, names of faculty, other class members, anything innappropriate, etc).
    * project3/MATLABFILES,CSV: These will be the files needed to complete the assignment.

Whenever you are done with a question or part of a question, "commit" your code to start the autograding process. This can be done by calling the following command in project3's partent directory:

svn commit -m "Brief message that explains what you did."

This will commit every file that has been modified to the server's copy of your code. The final commit will be what we count in grading, and needs to be timestamped before lecture on the due date.

If you are interested in learning more about SVN, there are many SVN tutorials online.