You must know four things in order to make the dropoff.
This is the location you
specifed when you filled in the New dialog
box to create your project.
In the example below, the location of the project is
C:\files\HelloWorld.
Your instructor's homework assignment will specify the names of the
files you are to create and copy to your
FTP dropoff directory. Generally these files will be
Java source files. In the example below the name of the
file is HelloWorld.java.
This should be something like wjclinto, that is, your initials followed by the first six letters of your last name.
This was given to you by your instructor. It is your bulldog user id follow by four secret numbers. It will be something like wjclinto1357.
You'll need to run an FTP client in order to dropoff your program. Although there are many FTP clients for MS Windows, we are going to use the command line FTP client that is packaged with MS Windows in this example. It's certainly not the best or simplest FTP, but it is one you are guaranteed to have on your PC.
Here are the steps you need to make.
Now connect to your program's directory with the cd command. Following our example we type:
At this point, you should also type the MS/DOS command dir to make sure the files you wish to transfer are in the directory.
Type ftp ftp.cs.unca.edu. This should connect you to the UNCA CSCI FTP server and ask for a user id. This interaction will look like:
You should then get a message stating that you have connected to the anonymous FTP server of the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
At the ftp> prompt, type cd pub/201 to connect to the master dropoff directory for CSCI 201. The interchange will look something like:
Now use FTP's cd command to connect to your secret dropoff directory. This should look like: