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

Due

Sunday, September 14th at 11:59 PM

What You Need to Do

• Create the script hw2.py
• Make sure it obeys the rules in Rules for Homework Scripts
• Move it to an an hw2 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 hw2.py

Specification

• Write a script that ask the user 5 questions
• The script should store the answers for each question in a variable with an appropriate name
• It should then print a label and the value of the variable
• Each label and value must appear on the same line
• The script should ask for
  • Name
  • Birth Year
  • Birth Month
  • Birth City
  • Favorite Color

Output

• The output should look something like this

  Name: Glenn
  Birth Year: 1946
  Birth Month: June
  Birth City: New York
  Favorite Color: Green
  Name: Glenn
  Birth Year: 1946
  Birth Month: June
  Birth City: New York
  Favorite Color: Green

• 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

1. Write an input statement that asks the user for their name and stores it in the variable name.
   Print "Name" and the value of name.
2. Repeat the step above for "Birth Year" and the variable year.
3. Repeat the step above for "Birth Month" and the variable month.
4. Repeat the step above for "Birth City" and the variable city.
5. Repeat the step above for "Favorite Color" and the variable color.

Testing on Your Machine

• Open IDLE
• Use the Open command in IDLE to open hw2.py
• Run your script inside IDLE
• Your output should look something like this

  Name: Glenn
  Birth Year: 1946
  Birth Month: June
  Birth City: New York
  Favorite Color: Green
  Name: Glenn
  Birth Year: 1946
  Birth Month: June
  Birth City: New York
  Favorite Color: Green

• 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 hw2 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/hw2

• Run this script

  python3 hw2.py

• You should see something like this

  Name: Glenn
  Birth Year: 1946
  Birth Month: June
  Birth City: New York
  Favorite Color: Green
  Name: Glenn
  Birth Year: 1946
  Birth Month: June
  Birth City: New York
  Favorite Color: Green

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

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