(FTP directory copy) - Grading guidelines

Your code will be graded out of 10 points. Seven of the points will be based on your code's functionality as determined by the automatic testing script. The additional three points will be based on your code's design and style.

Among the 3 style/design points, we will consider the following while taking off points:

• Code has poor variable or function names
• Code is poorly documented or difficult to read
• Code is not well modularized (entire program implemented in main(), etc.)
• Code is not ANSI compliant or uses C++ structures
• Spaghetti code (goto's without a very good reason, etc.)
• Code is hard to follow for any number of other reasons (inconsistent or just plain bad formatting, etc.)
• The response codes from the FTP server are not looked at.
• Assumes maximum size for list of files
• Code is not portable
• Code doesn't check return values of system/library calls

From the 7 functionality points of the assignment we reserve 1 point for doing extra functionality tests in during the grading. The following guidelines should be followed for taking off up to 6 points:

A	Does not compile *	-6
B	Unable to connect and transfer any data	-5
C	Connects to server but cannot open data connection, or transfers no files	-4.5
D	Connects to server but does not transfer any matching files in the specified levels	-4
E	Relies on a particular FTP site or non-standard settings	-2.5
F	file transfers:
	F.1 Connects, but does not transfer all the matching files in the top level F.2 Does not transfer all of the matching files in the first level down to the last specified level F.3 Transfers a file above the last specified level F.4 Transfers a non-matching file	-1 each (max -3)
G	Transfers all of the matching files, but bad file checksum	-1
H	User interface specification: violates command-line format	-0.5
I	User interface specification: violates output format	-0.5
J	File permissions not correct	-0.5
K	Wrong local directory: incorrect handling of absolute / relative paths	-1
L	Special cases:
	L.1 Empty File L.2 Empty directory L.3 Inaccessible File L.4 Directory in directory L.5 Non-Anonymous FTP Server L.6 Non-Existent Host L.7 Non-existing remote-directory	-0.5 each (max -3)
M	Valgrind: memory problems in user code	-0.5
N	Socket or file descriptors left open	-0.5
* Not to be taken off if the program did not compile due to a submission problem; i.e. a local header file in the wrong directory, etc.