Practice with interactive mode

• Run IDLE on your machine
  
• Create some variables
  

  a = 5
  b = 6
  c = 10

• Check the values you have just entered
  

  a
  b
  c

• Perform some arithmetic
  

  a + b + c
  a * b + c
  a * b * c
  a * b / c

• Print some phrases
  

  print("Hello world!")
  print("Go Red Sox!")

Script for this exercise

• Open a text editor
  Use the editor built into IDLE.
  From the File menu, click and drag down to New File.
• Enter the text below
  

  print("Hello world!")

• Save the file as ex2.py
  
• Run the script
  In the Run menu select Run Module
• You should see
  

  Hello world!

Copy the file to Unix

• Open FileZilla and connect to pe15.cs.umb.edu
  You will have to connect using your Unix username and password.
• Go to your 116 directory
• Inside this directory create the directories ex and hw
  Right-click in the whitespace inside the it116 directory.
  Click and drag down to Create directory.
  Add ex to the path in the dialog box.
  Click OK.
  Reapeat this procedure to create an hw directory.
• Go to your ex directory
• Inside this directory create the directory ex2
  Right-click in the whitespace inside the ex directory.
  Click and drag down to Create directory.
  Add ex2 to the path in the dialog box.
  Click OK.
• Copy your script to pe15
  Click and drag your ex2.py file to the ex2 directory

Running my test script on your script (Optional)

• If you want to run my text script on your Class Exercise script do the following
• Connect to pe15.cs.umb.edu
  Use an ssh client.
• Run my test code on your script
  

  ~ghoffman/it116_test/ex02.sh

  The script will prompt you for your Unix username.