Compiling a seperate source file package

Hey everyone,
I've been trying to compile a package project for a university assignment for ages now but it just won't work. The assignment is purely about compiling the project in a certain way. The question says:
Create a sub-directory called 'src' which is a child of your main application directory and copy all the source files into this directory.
Which means that it wants this sort of structure:
./program name
./program name/src
./program name/classes
The problem is - no matter what i try it never compiles successfully. What would you suggest i try to compile it?

./program name
./program name/src
./program name/classesI always get an itchy feeling when I see spaces in
pathnames ...
kind regards,
JosSorry, the program name does not have spaces in.
I've also got it working now. Thanks for your reply!

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