These guidelines describe the format specifications for 6.188 assignments, specifically for Scheme project code. Submissions which do not adhere to these guidelines will not be accepted. This may seem like a lot of guidelines, but you will find that most of them are common sense.

• All assignments should be turned in by the specified due date and time in both hard and soft copy. Occasionally, we will ask you to turn the hard copy at 6.081 lecture, if there is no 6.188 lecture on the due date.
• Soft copy submissions should be sent via e-mail to 6.188-submit@mit
• Unless otherwise specified, you should only submit one (1) file for the entire project
• The submitted file should be named in the following convention: yourlastname_projectN.scm, where N is the 6.001 project number (e.g. dohzen_project0.scm)
• All submitted code should be clearly commented, and each part of the project should be clearly delimited by comments such as:

  ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
  ;; Problem 1 ;;
  ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
  

• The file you submit must be in text format. To save definitions as text in DrScheme, do File | Save Other | Save Definitions as Text. To save interactions as text, do File | Save Other | Save Interactions as Text. To verify that you have saved in the correct format, try to open your file in a simple text editor, such as Notepad or SimpleText. If it's human-readable, you are all set; if you see a lot of random numbers and other gibberish, you saved a binary file and need to resave in text format.
• When you are asked to turn in interactions with the interpreter, make sure that the interpreter responses and prompts are properly commented out. You can either copy and paste from the interactions window into the definitions window or save your interactions explicitly (don't forget to save as text!), but you then need to comment out the interactions portion of your file (use your mouse to select the text, then do Scheme | Comment out with semicolons). To verify that you have done this correctly, type the following at the interpreter:

  > (load "/path/to/filename.scm")
  

  where "/path/to/filename.scm" is the full path to the file you are trying to load (e.g. "c:/6.188/dohzen_project1.scm") If you get an error, then you have a syntax error in your definitions and/or you did not correctly save your interactions.
• Ensure that you have not commented out your definitions on accident - you can test this by doing the load statement described above, and then trying to use one of the procedures you defined in the interactions window. If you get and "undefined symbol" error, then the interpreter can't find the procedure, either because it is commented out, or doesn't exist at all.
• Hard copies must be stapled together, if multiple pages, and printed clearly (be careful, in color the default is to print comments in orange from DrScheme)
• Late assignments will automatically be dropped one grade, as in 6.081. See the 6.081 general information page for more details on grading.