IT 116: Introduction to Scripting - Class 17 Exercise

IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Class 17 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 ex17.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

Boston Red Sox
Baltimore Orioles
Toronto Blue Jays
Tampa Bay Rays
New York Yankees

Name:    Glenn Hoffman
Address: 40 Central Street, Somerville
Phone:   617-821-3936

Glenn Hoffman
40 Central Street, Somerville
617-821-3936

The text in blue is entered by the user

Unix setup

Log in to users3.cs.umb.edu
You will be in your home directory.
Go to your it116 directory
```
cd it116
```
Go to your ex directory
```
cd ex
```
Create a directory for this exercise
```
mkdir  ex17
```
Check that the directory was created
```
ls
```

Copy the file to Unix

Open FileZilla and connect to users3.cs.umb.edu
You will have to connect using your Unix username and password.
Copy the file to the to it116/ex/ex17

Testing the script on Unix

Connect to users3.cs.umb.edu
Use an ssh client.
Go to the directory for this exercise
```
cd  it116/ex/ex17
```
Run this script
```
python3 ex17.py
```

You should see something like this

Boston Red Sox
Baltimore Orioles
Toronto Blue Jays
Tampa Bay Rays
New York Yankees

Name:    Glenn Hoffman
Address: 40 Central Street, Somerville
Phone:   617-821-3936

Glenn Hoffman
40 Central Street, Somerville
617-821-3936

The text in blue is entered by the user

Running my test script on your script

If you want to run my text script on your Class Exercise script do the following
Run ex17.sh on your script
```
~ghoffman/it116_test/ex17.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.