1. Windows Files to Hand-In
And other things you should know
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Windows
The design and evolution of Windows is to make the computer more user friendly
It is intended for the
Computer illiterate
Computer semi-literate
And not for the computer sophisticated
Developers are supposed to be able to see through the lies that Windows tells us
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Developers
Those who:
Design, write, test and document programs
Developers use programs to make programs
Programs are also known as applications
The person who designs a car must know more about the car and the highway than those who merely drive
Same with applications
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4. Does Windows really lie?
The desktop is the root of the computer
Actually the desktop is a subdirectory on the C disk
Documents (files) are the center of the world
The files are worthless without an application to manipulate them
It also conceals files that we are interested in
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Files
Files need three pieces to identify them
Directory – this includes the drive
File name
Extension
Windows Explorer or My Computer will hide the extension by default
We need to expose it
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File Explorer
We need to send multiple files to hand-in a program
The easiest and best way to do this is with File Explorer
AKA Windows Explorer
Not to be confused with the browser Internet Explorer
We will now see how File Explorer is started
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7. Starting File Explorer
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Running
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9. Click View Tab Set Extensions
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Commentary
We want to see the File Name Extensions
Then we can send the right thing
Once set, it remains
Only need to set once
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wxDev-C++
There are lots of files
9 in the main directory
More in the two subdirectories
The easiest way is to zip the entire directory and it
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The Process
Have Dev-CPP show the directory
Select directory with Windows Explorer
Right click and choose Send to Compressed file
It will then compress it
The file allows a rename when done
Consider the following screens
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Finding Directory
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Zipping Directory (1)
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Zipping Directory (2)
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The zip file
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Directories
The dialog may ask you where the file is stored
Attach this to an to me
This also works in the debugging process
Very hard for me to answer questions when all I have is brief description in
Zip it and send whole directory
Does not count as a graded program
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18. Addendum on Executables
The spam and malware filters are getting better and better
Prior to 2012 they would always remove a .EXE from
Now they actually scan .ZIP files and remove entire file if it contains one executable
How do we get around this?
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Removing executables
Prior to the zip operation delete the executable or its directory
In Dev-CPP this is the Output directory
Just delete the entire directory
The next time you run it, it will be rebuilt
See next slide
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20. Delete Output Directory
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Finally
We are now ready to hand in DevCPP generated GUI programs
The first time you do this you may need to refer back to this PowerPoint
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