[Year 12 SofDev] Your homework!

[Frank Van Den Boom]

My kids did this trial paper this morning - this was not a good
question. It would have been helpful if the question had a few words
explaining what the algorithm was intended to do. There are any number
of answers to this when it is this open.

Btw, I still thought this was a good trial paper - lots of other good
questions. The case study was good though it had some similarities to
last years EOY paper.

Frank 

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Sent: Friday, 12 October 2007 1:09 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Your homework!

Refer to SD VITTA exam 2, Q10b - algorithm...

Module Print_marks
Begin
     Display heading
     Enter Test_mark1
     Enter Test_mark2
     If Test_mark1 < 0 or Test_mark1 > 100
         Display error message
         End program
     Else
         Display prompt for user
         Input Test_mark1
     End if
     Test_total <- Test_mark1 + Test_mark2
     Case of Test_total
     Case: Test_total > 100
         Display 'S'
     Case: Test_total >= 160
         Display 'HD'
     Case: Test_total < 100
         Display 'F'
     End Case
End

Q10b. Under what circumstances will the user be asked to enter
'Test_mark1' again?

The suggested answer is "If test_mark1 is < 0 or > 100"

Can you spot something rather odd with this?
Only 4 of my 13 kids did :-)

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