IT 117: Intermediate Scripting

IT 117: Intermediate to Scripting
Class 13 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 ex13.py
Copy the file 04_hw_scoring_sheet_it117.txt from /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files
Use FileZilla to do this.
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE.
Under the Run menu, select Run .. Customized.
In the dialog box enter 04_hw_scoring_sheet_it117.txt
Look at the contents of 04_hw_scoring_sheet_it117.txt
```
cat 04_hw_scoring_sheet_it117.txt
```

You should see something like

IT 117: Intermediate Scripting - Scoring Sheet
Homework 4: hw4.py
=======================================================

Student name:   John Jones

Has hashbang line                                 10  points

Has correct permissions                           10  points

Has meaningful comment at top of script file      10  points

Function comments meaningful                       0  points
no function comments

Script runs without syntax errors                 20  points

word_frequencies_create has functioning 
try/except statement to catch file errors         10  points

word_frequencies_create works properly            20  points

word_frequency_print works properly               10  points


Score: 90

Notice that the file now has a line with the total score.

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 117 directory
Go to your ex directory
Inside this directory create the directory ex13
Right-click in the whitespace inside the ex directory.
Click and drag down to Create directory.
Add ex13 to the path in the dialog box.
Click OK.
Copy your ex13.py
Click and drag the script from your machine to the ex13 directory.
Make your script executable
Right-click on the file and select "Permissions" from the menu.
Enter 755 in the box provided.
Click OK.
This will make the script executable.
Copy 04_hw_scoring_sheet_it117.txt to pe15
Click and drag the file from your machine to the ex13 directory

Running my test script on your script

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/it117_test/ex13.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.