CS 161 — Submitting Assignments

Submitting Work Electronically

Java programming projects will be submitted via BlueJ's submission system this semester. You'll be able to submit your work easily whether you're on or off campus at the time, but you'll need to make one change to the BlueJ preferences first so that the system knows who you are. (Otherwise, when you submit your assignments, I wouldn't know who you are either!) The steps below will walk you through setting up BlueJ's preferences and submitting a project.

Open BlueJ's preferences ("Preferences..." under the BlueJ menu on Mac, "Preferences..." under the Tools menu on a PC), and click on the "Extensions" tab. You'll get a window like the one below. Fill in the "User name" and "Email" fields with your own name and Puget Sound email address and press OK. (It's important that you use your Puget Sound email here, otherwise your submission attempds will fail.) Don't worry about any of the other settings in the window.

If you've installed BlueJ on your own personal machine, these settings will be remembered and you won't have to edit them again. If you work on the machines in the lab though, you'll need to double-check them each time before you submit an assignment.
Now that you've got the settings updated, let's try to submit: Go to the Tools menu in BlueJ and select Submit. (If you don't see a "Tools" menu, close any code editing windows you might have open and look again.) You'll get a window like the one below. You don't need to do anything here except to click on the "Submit" button.
After clicking on Submit you should see a window like this, confirming that your submission was successful. You can submit a project as many times as you'd like. Later submissions overwrite earlier ones.

Troubleshooting

If the "submit" button on the submitter page is grayed out, it's because the "scheme" isn't set properly. If the scheme is blank, click on it (it's a drop-down menu) and select "Submit to Prof. Richards". Then you can submit.
If the submission fails with a message like the one shown below, it's because you didn't provide a Puget Sound email in the submitter preferences as described above. Follow the instructions above and try again. There are other failure messages you might get, but the others have to do with errors on the submission server that you don't have any control over. If you get one, please email the details to me ASAP so I can fix things.
If the "Submit..." menu item on the Tools menu is grayed out (as shown below), it's because I forgot to put a submission.defs file inside the project folder. Oops. That's what tells BlueJ which files to submit, and where to put them on the server. If that's the case, please let me know. In the meantime, you can quit BlueJ, download this file into the project folder, then restart BlueJ and submit. That file uses some generic settings, but will at least let you submit.

Brad Richards, 2024