Course on Internet of Things

Exercises Session 1:

Introductory remarks:

The scripts we are going to develop during these exercises do not depend on any system issues: We do not use command line arguments not available in MicroPython nor do we use any hardware specific features which are not available on a PC. The exercises can therefore be developed and run on the ESP32 but also on any standard PC with Python3 installed.

Exercise 1:

Connect to your ESP32 with minicom or thonny.

Using REPL:

• print “Hello World!”

• read in a text using input() and print it

• Calculate

  

• Calculate sin(30°)
  If you see errors, how do you correct them? Are the results correct?

Exercise 2:

Write a script that assigns the values 5 and 3 to the variables a and b respectively

Print the results of 4 basic arithmetic operations:

• a+b

• a-b

• a*b

• a/b

Improve this program asking the user to enter 2 real numbers (floats) separated by a space. This is how it should look like:

If this happens:

when the user mistypes and enters something that is not an integer, can you capture the error and simply ask the user to repeat his input, until you get 2 correct integer numbers?

Bonus points: Writing a parser for user input is rather easy if the numbers and operator are separated by spaces (have a look at the split method of strings). It is quite a bit more tricky if you allow entering calculations without spaces between the operands and the operator. Can you write a parser accomplishing this?

Try your parser on this input:

Exercise 3:

Like in exercise2, start with 2 numbers a,b with values 5 and 3. In your program check which of the 2 numbers is bigger and print the result.

Then improve the program asking the user for 2 integer numbers. Make sure he enters 2 correct numbers and capture possible errors. This is a typical output:

-- Uli Raich - 2020-05-03

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