IT 116: Intermediate Scripting

IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Homework 7

Due
What You Need to Do
Setup On Your Machine
Specification
Functions
Test Code
Output
Suggestions
Testing on Your Machine
Copy the Script to Unix
Testing the Script on Unix (Optional)

Due

Sunday, October 26th at 11:59 PM

What You Need to Do

Create the script hw7.py
Make sure it obeys the rules in Rules for Homework Scripts
Move it to an an hw7 directory on pe15.cs.umb.edu

Setup On Your Machine

Open a text editor.
I would suggest the text editor built into the program IDLE.
Save the file as hw7.py

Specification

Your script must print two conversion tables
One from Fahrenheit to Kelvin
The other from Kelvin to Fahrenheit
You convert Fahrenheit to Kelvin like this
```
Kelvin = (Fahrenheit - 32) / 1.8 + 273.15
```
To go from Kelvin to Fahrenheit
```
Fahrenheit = Kelvin * 9/5 - 459.67
```
It must do this using 5 functions
- get_int
- fahrenheit_to_kelvin_table
- fahrenheit_to_kelvin
- kelvin_to_fahrenheit_table
- kelvin_to_fahrenheit

Functions

get_int

Header
```
def get_int(prompt):
```
This function has one parameter, prompt, a string
The function uses this prompt in a call to input to get a value
It converts this value into an integer and returns the converted value

fahrenheit_to_kelvin_table

Header
```
fahrenheit_to_kelvin_table(min, max):
```
This function prints an Fahrenheit to Kelvin conversion table with Fahrenheit values running from min to max
Before printing the table, the function prints the labels "Fahrenheit" and "Kelvin", followed by a line of dashes
The function prints each line of the table calling fahrenheit_to_kelvin to get the Kelvin value
The Kelvin values should align with the "Kelvin" label
See the example below

fahrenheit_to_kelvin

Header
```
def fahrenheit_to_kelvin(fahr):
```
This function converts a Fahrenheit value to Kelvin and returns that value
The Kelvin value must be an integer

kelvin_to_fahrenheit_table

Header

def kelvin_to_fahrenheit_table(min, max):

This function prints an Kelvin to Fahrenheit conversion table with Kelvin values running from min to max
Before printing the table, the function prints the labels "Kelvin" and "Fahrenheit", followed by a line of dashes
The function prints each line of the table calling kelvin_to_fahrenheit to get the Fahrenheit value
The Fahrenheit values should align with the "Fahrenheit" label
See the example below

kelvin_to_fahrenheit

Header
```
def kelvin_to_fahrenheit(kelvin):
```
This function converts a Kelvin value to Fahrenheit and returns that value
The Fahrenheit value must be an integer

Test Code

Your script must contain the following statements

min_fahr = get_int("Minimum Fahrenheit: ")
max_fahr = get_int("Maximum Fahrenheit: ")
print()
fahrenheit_to_kelvin_table(min_fahr, max_fahr)
print()
min_kelvin = get_int("Minimum Kelvin: ")
max_kelvin = get_int("Maximum Kelvin: ")
print()
kelvin_to_fahrenheit_table(min_kelvin, max_kelvin)

They should appear at the bottom of your script

Output

The output should look something like this

Minimum Fahrenheit: 20
Maximum Fahrenheit: 30

Fahrenheit	Kelvin
----------------------
20		266
21		267
22		268
23		268
24		269
25		269
26		270
27		270
28		271
29		271
30		272

Minimum Kelvin: 260
Maximum Kelvin: 270

Kelvin	Fahrenheit
----------------------
260	8
261	10
262	12
263	14
264	16
265	17
266	19
267	21
268	23
269	25
270	26

The text in blue is what the user enters

Suggestions

Write this script in stages
Test your script at each step
Print the steps below
And check them off as you finish each one

Copy only the function headers for the five functions listed above into your script file.
Under each header, write pass.
Make sure this statement is indented.
Run the script.
Fix any errors you find.
Remove the pass statement from get_int.
Replace it with an assignment statement that uses input to give the variable number a value.
Use the parameter prompt as the argument to input.
Use an assignment statement to convert number into an integer.
Return number.
Copy the test code to the bottom of the script file.
Comment out all but the first two lines of the test code.
Run the script.
Fix any errors you find.
Remove the pass statement from fahrenheit_to_kelvin_table.
Replace it with a statement that prints the labels "Fahrenheit" and "Kelvin".
Then write a statement that prints a line of dashes, -.
Uncomment the next two lines in the test code.
Run the script.
Fix any errors you find.
Write a for loop that gives the loop variable fahr values from min to max.
You will have to use range to do this, and be careful about the 2nd argument.
Inside the loop print the value of fahr.
Run the script.
Fix any errors you find.
Add a second argument to the print statement in fahrenheit_to_kelvin_table.
This argument will be a call to the function fahrenheit_to_kelvin with fahr as the argument.
Remove the pass statement from fahrenheit_to_kelvin.
Replace it with a statement that returns the parameter fahr.
Run the script.
You should see two values for fahr on each line.
Fix any errors you find.
Remove the return statement in fahrenheit_to_kelvin.
Replace it with an assignment statement that gives the variable kelvin the converted value of fahr.
You will do this using the formula
```
kelvin = (fahr - 32) / 1.8 + 273.15
```
Turn the value of kelvin into an integer with an assignment statement using round.
Return the value of kelvin.
Run the script.
You should see both the fahr and kelvin values on the same line.
Fix any errors you find.
Now you have to make sure the kelvin values align with the "Kelvin" label.
This can be done using the escape sequence for the tab character, \t.
Replace the space between "Fahrenheit" and "Kelvin" in the label with \t.
Now we need to print fahr and kelvin with \t in between.
To make this work we will need to concatenate the three values.
But numbers cannot be concatenated with strings.
So we have to run the str string conversion function on both fahr and kelvin.
Then we can use concatenation to put \t between them.
Run the script.
Fix any errors you find.
Repeat steps 3 - 7 for the last two functions making appropriate changes.
Use the conversion formula
```
fahr = kelvin * 9/5 - 459.67
```

Testing on Your Machine

Open IDLE
Use the Open command in IDLE to open hw7.py
Run your script inside IDLE

Your output should look something like this

Minimum Fahrenheit: 20
Maximum Fahrenheit: 30

Fahrenheit	Kelvin
----------------------
20		266
21		267
22		268
23		268
24		269
25		269
26		270
27		270
28		271
29		271
30		272

Minimum Kelvin: 260
Maximum Kelvin: 270

Kelvin	Fahrenheit
----------------------
260	8
261	10
262	12
263	14
264	16
265	17
266	19
267	21
268	23
269	25
270	26

The text in blue is what you enter at the command line

Copy the Script to Unix

Open FileZilla and connect to pe15.cs.umb.edu
Go to your it116 directory
Go to your hw directory
Right-click in the whitespace inside the hw directory
Enter hw7 in the dialog box
Click and drag your script from the bottom left panel to the bottom right panel

Testing the Script on Unix (Optional)

Connect to pe15.cs.umb.edu using an ssh client like putty.exe (Windows) or ssh (Mac)
Go to the directory for this exercise
```
cd  it116/hw/hw7
```
Run this script
```
python3 hw7.py
```

You should see something like this

Minimum Fahrenheit: 20
Maximum Fahrenheit: 30

Fahrenheit	Kelvin
----------------------
20		266
21		267
22		268
23		268
24		269
25		269
26		270
27		270
28		271
29		271
30		272

Minimum Kelvin: 260
Maximum Kelvin: 270

Kelvin	Fahrenheit
----------------------
260	8
261	10
262	12
263	14
264	16
265	17
266	19
267	21
268	23
269	25
270	26

The text in blue is what you enter at the command line