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Scripting Languages A2 PF1 1

The document provides instructions for an assignment to create a shell script called getprimes.sh. The script must prompt the user for the lower and upper bounds of a range, validate the input, count the prime numbers within the range, calculate their sum, and output the results. It must handle errors if no prime numbers are found or the input is invalid. The script will be marked based on criteria like validating the user input, counting and summing the primes correctly, and handling error cases. Students should complete the script individually and submit it as a zip file with a specific naming format.

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Scripting Languages A2 PF1 1

The document provides instructions for an assignment to create a shell script called getprimes.sh. The script must prompt the user for the lower and upper bounds of a range, validate the input, count the prime numbers within the range, calculate their sum, and output the results. It must handle errors if no prime numbers are found or the input is invalid. The script will be marked based on criteria like validating the user input, counting and summing the primes correctly, and handling error cases. Students should complete the script individually and submit it as a zip file with a specific naming format.

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Scripting Languages: Assignment 2.

1- Portfolio Task
Brief
Overview
In this assignment you are required to write a script that demonstrates the extent to which you have
understood the shell script concepts and practices addressed in Modules 1 to 4 inclusive. This assignment is
worth 20% (20 marks) of your unit grade and its completion will help you build skills required for the
assignments to follow.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
▪ Your script will be marked on a standard Ubuntu Linux for desktop installation using the bash shell.
▪ Refrain from using non-core commands, tools and utilities in your bash shell scripts. Non-standard
bash commands, tools and utilities will not be downloaded and installed by your tutor.
▪ Ensure each script you write is fully self-contained and is not configured to be dependent on external
files, libraries or resources to run.
▪ Do not use the trap command in any of your scripts.
▪ All scripts you submit must contain your full name and student number at the top as comments.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
▪ This is an individual assignment only and must not be completed in collaboration with other
students.
▪ You may not work with others, acquire code from others, or provide code to others.
▪ Further, you may not post any of the assignment’s specifications to a code-development community
of any kind seeking solutions or advice.
▪ Nor may you copy and paste, or otherwise reproduce, any shell script verbatim from sources
external to the unit materials into your own scripts. You may examine (read) how external sources
have approached particular shell scripting tasks with a view to generating ideas about how you
might approach a particular task yourself as long as their code does not become your code.
▪ Where it is found that any of these restrictions have been ignored, academic misconduct
proceedings may be initiated.
▪ Please read the checklist below and watch the associated video BEFORE submitting your assignment

Watch this video before submitting your assignment

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Task – Get Prime Count and Sum (20 marks)
Write a script that:

▪ Counts all prime numbers that exist within a user-provided range, e.g. 100 to 200
▪ Calculates the sum of all the prime numbers identified within this range
▪ Prints the prime numbers, their count, and their sum to the terminal
Requirements:
▪ Call the script getprimes.sh.
▪ Your script will prompt the user for the lower and upper bounds of the range
▪ User inputs must be fully validated to ensure they meet the following range rules:
1. Accepts only numbers, e.g. 100, and nothing else, i.e., rejects strings, nulls, etc
2. Does not accept the numbers 0 and 1 as valid range values
3. Ensures the lower range bound provided is less than the upper range bound provided
4. Ensures that there is at least one number between the lower and upper bound values
provided, e.g. a minimum viable range would be 100 to 102, but not 100 to 101
5. Whenever the user’s input does not pass validation, the user is to be advised of the
applicable error and prompted to try again, i.e. the user is to be looped back to the input
prompt; the program is not to just terminate
▪ If no prime numbers exist within the stipulated range, then advise the user of this via the terminal,
e.g. no prime number(s) exist within the range x and y
▪ In the event one or more prime numbers are found within the stipulated range, these are to be
printed to the terminal along with their count and sum in a neat, easily readable format
▪ To construct your script, use any combination of commands, utilities, control structures etc covered
through Modules 1-4 inclusive.
Watch the Get Prime Count and Sum demonstration video that accompanies this assignment brief on
Canvas to see this script in action. This will give you a good idea of what your own script needs to do.

Marking Key (Rubric)


Your assignment will be marked using an online rubric, the assessment criteria and weightings of which are outlined below:
ITEM# ITEM VALUE
1 User prompted for lower and upper bounds of the range 2
2 User input logic only accepts integer numbers, and not strings, nulls or floats 2
3 User input logic rejects numbers 0 and 1 as valid range values 2
4 User input logic ensures lower range bound less than the upper range bound 2
5 User input logic ensures at least one number between lower and upper bound values provided 2
6 When user input fails validation, user advised of applicable error and prompted to try again (script does not 2
terminate)
7 Where no prime numbers exist within the stipulated range, user is advised of this via the terminal 2
8 Where prime numbers do exist within the stipulated range, all are included in the count displayed to terminal 2
9 Where prime numbers do exist within the stipulated range, all are displayed to terminal 2
10 Where prime numbers do exist within the stipulated range, all are factored into the correct sum which is 2
displayed to terminal
TOTAL /20

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How to submit your portfolio to Canvas
Submit the shell script (bash) file you have created in a zipped folder with the following naming format:

[surname]_[student-ID]_CSI6203_PF1.zip

END OF ASSIGNMENT BRIEF

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