Thurs, Oct 23: How to properly zip and upload

Greetings, esteemed colleagues in code!

Today, before you get to work on your projects, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of the importance of HANDING YOUR WORK IN ON TIME. Some of you have already lost points for not bothering to upload as I have demonstrated and as I have insisted that you do.

I believe this to be so important that I am including a series of instructions on how to upload your Projects:

A) After working on your project, notice that it is about 5 to 10 minutes before the end of the period

B) Save all your work, then close Visual Basic

C) Get into your "Projects" folder by going to "My Documents", then Visual Studio 2005, then into the Projects folder

D) Inside this main Projects folder, you should see many other folders, including the one which contains your current project

E) Create a new Winzip file next to this current project folder by right clicking in a blank space, then going to NEW then Winzip

F) Rename this Winzip file so that the filename includes your name, the name of your project and todays date as a number; for example "PaulLaRueMissionRisk1023"

G) Drag your current project folder onto this winzip file, then click the Add button

H) Get online and go to your shared "VBDepot" folder on Box.net. Upload the zip file you created

It's really that simple. From now on, do it before the end of EVERY CLASS.

Cheers,
Mr. L