Turn-in Instructions

This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment; while you may ask others for help on Java or Swing details, please build your application on your own.

Here are the details for how to turn in the assignment. We'll be using this structure for all of the turn-ins:

1. Create an executable JAR file named courier.jar that contains your runnable application. (See here for details on how to create executable JAR files.) We should be able to run your program by typing "java -jar courier.jar" on the command line; please be sure that your application runs correctly using ONLY this command, and that it doesn't require any additional CLASSPATH or other environment variables, no additional parameters, no classfiles or images located outside the JAR file, etc.

2. Create a new directory using your last name as the name of the directory.

3. Put the courier.jar file into the top level of this directory, and all of your source files into a "source" subdirectory inside this directory.

4. Put a README.txt file into the top level of this directory. This file should contain your name and email address, the version of Java you used (Java 1.7.x only, please) as well as any special info we might need to know about your program (let us know if you did extra credit, for example).

5. ZIP this directory and submit via T-Square (instructions are here).

Please take care to remove any platform dependencies, such as hardcoded Windows path names or dependence on a particular look-and-feel that may not exist on all platforms. Also, if you use any images in your application, please make sure that you include these in your JAR file and that your code will refer to them and load them properly when they're in this JAR file (see this page for some details on how to include and load images from within a JAR file).

Grading for this assignment, and future assignments, will roughly follow this breakdown:

Please let the TA or me know if you have any questions.