IT 116: Introduction to Scripting - Class 16 Exercise

IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Class 16 Exercise

Practice with interactive mode

Run IDLE on your machine
Import the math module
```
import math
```

Create the function circle_area

def circle_area(radius):
     return math.pi * radius ** 2

circle_area(5)
78.53981633974483

The value of area should be 78.53981633974483.

Use this function in a boolean expression
```
circle_area(6) > circle_area(7.5)
False
```

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 ex16.py
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE. Under the Run menu, select Run Module.

You should see something like this

Please enter a score: 80
Score: 80    B-
First number: 35
Second number: 6
6 does not evenly divide 35
First name: Glenn
Last name: Hoffman
Hello Glenn Hoffman

The text in blue is entered by the user

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 ex16
Right-click in the whitespace inside the ex directory.
Click and drag down to Create directory.
Add ex16 to the path in the dialog box.
Click OK.
Copy your script to pe15
Click and drag your ex16.py file to the ex16 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/ex16.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.