IT 116: Introduction to Scripting

IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Class 12 Exercise

Practice with interactive mode

Run IDLE on your machine

Create the function cheer_1

def cheer_1(team):
    print("Go " + team + "!")

Run this function
```
cheer_1("Red Sox")
```

Create a function that uses a global variable

def cheer_2():
    print("Go " + team + "!")

Run this function
```
team = "Patriots"
cheer_2()
```

Create a function with a default value

def cheer_3(team, times=3):
    for i in range(times):
       print("Go " + team + "!")

Run this function with different function calls

cheer_3("Red Sox", 5)
cheer_3("Red Sox", 1)
cheer_3("Red Sox")

Script for this exercise

Open a text editor
You can use the editor built into IDLE or use a program like Sublime.
Copy the text below into the file

Save the file as ex12.py
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE. Under the Run menu, select Run Module.

You should see

Go Patriots!
Go Patriots!

Go Red Sox!
Go Red Sox!
Go Red Sox!

Go Bruins!

1 squared is 1
2 squared is 4
3 squared is 9
4 squared is 16
5 squared is 25

1 cubed is 1
2 cubed is 8
3 cubed is 27
4 cubed is 64
5 cubed is 125

1 multiplied by itself 2 times is 1
2 multiplied by itself 2 times is 4
3 multiplied by itself 2 times is 9
4 multiplied by itself 2 times is 16
5 multiplied by itself 2 times is 25

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 ex12
Right-click in the whitespace inside the ex directory.
Click and drag down to Create directory.
Add ex12 to the path in the dialog box.
Click OK.
Copy your script to pe15
Click and drag your ex12.py file to the ex12 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/ex12.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.