IT 117: Introduction to Scripting
Homework 9

Due

Sunday, November 10th at 11:59 PM

What You Need to Do

Setup On Your Machine

Specification

Methods

__init__


get_title


get_subtitle


get_author


get_publisher


__str__


Script for this assignment

Open an a text editor and create the file hw9.py.

You can use the editor built into IDLE or a program like Sublime.

Test Code

Your hw9.py file must contain the following test code at the bottom of the file:

book = Book("Guns, Germs, and Steel", "The Fates of Human Societies", "Jared Diamond", "Norton")
print(book.get_title())
print(book.get_subtitle())
print(book.get_author())
print(book.get_publisher())
print(book)

You should see

Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
Norton
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond, Norton

Suggestions

Write this program in a step-by-step fashion using the technique of incremental development.

In other words, write a bit of code, test it, make whatever changes you need to get it working, and go on to the next step.

  1. Make a copy of your hw8.py file in your hw9 directory.
    Change the name of this file to hw9.py
    Remove all the test code from hw9.py
    Run the script.
    You should see nothing. Fix any problem you find.
  2. Change __init__ by adding the parameter publisher.
    Copy the first line of the test code to the bottom of your script.
    Run the script.
    You should see nothing. Fix any problem you find.
  3. Change __init__ and get_title so the attribute title is hidden.
    Copy the 2nd line of the test code to the bottom of your script.
    Run the script.
    Fix any problem you find.
  4. Change __init__ and get_subtitle so the attribute subtitle is hidden.
    Copy the 3rd line of the test code to the bottom of your script.
    Run the script.
    Fix any problem you find.
  5. Change __init__ and get_author so the attribute author is hidden.
    Copy the 4th line of the test code to the bottom of your script.
    Run the script.
    Fix any problem you find.
  6. Change __init__ so it sets the value of the attribute publisher.
    Create the method get_publisher that returns the value of this attribute.
    Copy the 5th line of the test code to the bottom of your script.
    Run the script.
    Fix any problem you find.
  7. Remove the method print_book.
    Replace it with the method __str__ which returns a string containing the values of each of the attributes.
    Copy the last line of the test code to the bottom of your script.
    Run the script.
    Fix any problem you find.

Testing on Your Machine

Copy the file to Unix

Make the File Executable

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