IT 116: Introduction to Scripting - Class 3 Exercise

IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Class 3 Exercise

Practice with interactive mode

Run IDLE on your machine

Print the the name of our University

print("University of Massachusetts at Boston")

Print our street address
```
print("100 Morrissey Boulevard")
```
Print our city and state
```
print("Boston, Massachusetts")
```
Print our zip code
```
print("02125-3393")
```
Create a variable
```
number = 20
```
Print the value of the variable you just created
```
print(number)
```
CHANGE the value of the variable
```
number = number + 1
```
Print the new value of this variable
```
print(number)
```

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.
Copy the text below into the file

Save the file as ex3.py
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE. Under the Run menu, select Run Module.

You should see

a + b + c =  21
a * b + c =  40
a * b * c =  300
c - b - a =  -1
a * b / c =  3.0

University of Massachusetts at Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, Massachusetts
02125-3393

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
Go to your ex directory
Inside this directory create the directory ex3
Right-click in the whitespace inside the ex directory.
Click and drag down to Create directory.
Add ex3 to the path in the dialog box.
Click OK.
Copy your scrpt to pe15
Click and drag your ex3.py file to the ex3 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/ex03.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.