[Year 12 SofDev] VITTA SD Exam 2 - A15-16

[Mark KELLY]

Unfortunately the pseudocode of FunctionB is broken - twice - and I think
the answer might be iffy.

1. The line *If A[iCount] > compItem* has an ELSE but no terminating END IF.

2. The FOR loop has no terminating NEXT or END FOR.

3. A16 asks how many times functionB will be called - the solution says 3
times.

Recursion always does my head in so I have not deskchecked it, but it seems
to me that the RETURN line actually calls functionB twice (once for arrLeft
and once for arrRight) so I'd say if that line is executed 3 times,
FunctionB would actually be called 6 times... I'm open to repudiation  :-)

Then it's more probably 7 times - once for the initial functionB call from
outside, then 3x2 times during recursion.


Anyway, it's rather too hard for SD, I'd say: recursion should not be
needed for SD exams.  VCAA papers have not been so tough (so far!)


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