IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Class 3

Tips and Examples

Review


New Material


Microphone

Readings

If you have the textbook you should read Chapter 2, Input, Processing and Output, from the textbook, Starting Out with Python.

Homework 2

I have posted homework 2 here.

It is due this coming Sunday at 11:59 PM.

Let's take a look at it.

First Graded Quiz

The first graded quiz will be given on Tuesday next week.

The questions from the graded quiz are taken from the ungraded quizzes of the previous week.

Unless I tell you otherwise, you should expect a graded quiz each week.

The quiz will be available on Gradescope on Tuesday.

Login Failure

If you enter the wrong password 5 times when connecting to pe15 you will be temporarily blocked from logging in to this machine.

This lock out will only last for 2 hours.

After 2 hours, you should be able try again.

If you have forgotten or misremembered your password, you can change it.

Go to https://portal.cs.umb.edu/password/

Recorded Class Meetings

You will find links to the recordings of class meeting here.

Use of Storage Space on the CS LAN

All of you will have an account on the Computer Science Department network.

With this account you get a home directory.

There is a limit on the total size of the files in your home directory.

So you should not store there anything you do not need for your classwork.

Do Not Post Anything From this Class Online

There are many web site that claim to "help" students learn new material.

As far as I am concerned sites like Chegg and CourseHero get their money by helping students cheat on their assignments.

Posting ANYTHING on such sites is a violation of your Oath of Honesty and will be reported to the Provost's Office.

This includes quiz and exam questions as well as homework assignments and Class Exercises.

Class Quizzes

From now on, each class will have a Class Quiz.

The Class Quiz is ungraded.

It is designed to help you remember the material covered in class.

Here is how it works.

Go to the listing of Class Quizzes you will find here.

Click on the link for the quiz you need to take.

Answer all the questions on a piece of paper.

Go to the listing of Class Quiz Answers you will find here.

Check your answers.

Questions

Are there any questions before I begin?

Tips and Examples

Some Skills Only Come With Work

Class Exercises

Getting Help

Describing a Problem

Don't Use Screenshots in Piazza

Review

Running Python in Interactive Mode

Python Scripts

Attendance

New Material

Output

Literals

Strings and String Literals

Triple Quotes

Characters

ASCII

Unicode

Representing Unicode Values

Ranges of Characters in ASCII

Variables

Creating Variables with Assignment Statements

Class Exercise

Class Quiz