IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Class 19 Exercise
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 ex19.py
Copy the file temps.txt from
/home/ghoffman/course_files/it116_files
Use FileZilla to do this.
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE. Under the Run menu, select Run Module.
You should see something like this
Average: 77.27
Maximum: 89
Minimum: 66
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 ex19
Right-click in the whitespace inside the
ex directory.
Click and drag down to Create directory.
Add ex19 to the path in the dialog box.
Click OK.
Copy your ex19.py file from your machine to the
ex19 directory on pe15
Make the script executable
Right-click on the file and select "Permissions" from the menu
Enter 755 in the box provided
Copy temps.txt from
the same directory where you created ex19.py
to your ex19 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/ex19.sh
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.