This is a lab assignment and so you will not be submitting it. However, the concepts and practice will help you on both the homework and exams so I encourage you to make a serious effort on it during class and consider finishing it outside of class.

Exercise 0

(This link has screenshots to accompany these instructions if you want them.)

  1. Mount the COURSES drive by double clicking the courses Desktop icon (if you didn’t use the checkbox when you logged in)
  2. Create a new folder in your STUWORK folder called Lab1
  3. Open VSCode
  4. Click and drag you Lab1 folder to the VSCode window to open it
  5. Create a new file named hello.py
  6. Drag up from the bottom of the VSCode screen to open a Terminal

Exercise 1

You’ll now test out using Gradescope.

  1. Navigate to Moodle, today’s class section and click on the “In Class Assignment” Gradescope link
  2. Upload hello.py to Gradescope (yes, even though it’s empty)
  3. Notice what the autograder does when your code doesn’t work correctly
  4. In hello.py type: print(“hello world!”)
    1. Don’t copy and paste! You should always type out Python code even if copying and pasting it is an option. Copying often introduces errors to the code because of weird spaces and it is good practice for you to start getting used to typing Python commands.
  5. Save hello.py
  6. See what your program does by typing python3 hello.py in the VSCode Terminal (it should print out “hello world!” without the quotes)
  7. Upload hello.py to Gradescope again and make sure that you pass the first test case
  8. Add your partner to the submission on Gradescope:

Screenshot of how to add group member on Gradescope

Exercise 2

We’ll be doing a lot with getting input from the Terminal in these first few weeks and it’s a little annoying to make sure that the formatting is just right for this sort of thing, so you’ll now get some practice.

  1. Make another file hello_input.py
  2. You can accept input from the user with the command input and save it to use later in a variable (we’ll learn more about exactly what variables and input do in the coming week). Type the following into your new file: 
     new_name = input("What is your name?")
 print(new_name)
  3. Run your program by typing python3 hello_input.py in the Terminal.
  4. Change your program so that it does the following when run: 
    python3 hello_input.py
What is your name? Anya
Hello, Anya!

  5. Upload both of your files to the Gradescope In Class Assignment to check if all the test cases are now passing.

  6. Try adding some extra parentheses to hello_input.py and see what the Style checker thinks:
new_name = (input("What is your name?"))

Exercise 3

Let me know that you’ve submitted your Gradescope assignment. I’ll aim to give you ‘feedback’ right away so you can see what that looks like as well.

Extra

If you finish everything above, work on the Runestone problems in Getting Started Lab Extra linked on Moodle.