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The document provides details for a major programming assignment. It consists of 4 questions that require developing algorithms and modular code to solve problems related to temperature readings, employee payroll, and calculating gas bills. The questions increase in complexity and scope from basic input-output diagrams and pseudocode to modularized solutions with error handling and hierarchical structure. Students must submit their responses as a word file by the given deadline and are warned that similar code to others will result in no marks.

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Title: Major Assignment: Assessment Summary

The document provides details for a major programming assignment. It consists of 4 questions that require developing algorithms and modular code to solve problems related to temperature readings, employee payroll, and calculating gas bills. The questions increase in complexity and scope from basic input-output diagrams and pseudocode to modularized solutions with error handling and hierarchical structure. Students must submit their responses as a word file by the given deadline and are warned that similar code to others will result in no marks.

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Assessment Summary

Pair:☒ Individual:☐
Title: Major Assignment
Graded out of: 50 Weight: 25%

Due date: Week 10 Friday 14 May 2021 5PM AEST

Submission: Online:☒ Hardcopy:☐


Instructions: Students submit using the submission tool located under the week 6 section of Moodle.

Objectives: There are several goals for the assignment:


• To demonstrate your understanding of the underpinning concepts of programming;
• To demonstrate a methodical approach to solving problems; and
• To demonstrate proficiency in designing and developing algorithms using sequence,
selection and iterative constructs and modularisation
Tasks
• Carefully read all the questions and provide solutions to all four questions.
• Word process your solution and submit a word file in “Major Assignment” Link.
• Your assignment will be assessed on how well your solutions have addressed the problem and met the
requirements, and on the overall “correctness” of your solutions. Use of appropriate constructs;
appropriate messages/error messages; suitable formatting of output; and use of appropriate modularisation
techniques are further assessment criteria.
• NOTE: Your assignment will be submitted in Turnitin. Similarities will be checked by lecturers, if you submit
an algorithm similar to your classmate both of you will get 0.

Relevant Content Weeks & ULOs


☐ Week 1 ☐ Week 2 ☐ Week 3 ☐ Week 4 ☐ Week 5 ☒Week 6
☒Week 7 ☒Week 8 ☒Week 9 ☐ Week 10 ☐ Week 11 ☐ Week 12

☐ ULO1 ☐ ULO2 ☐ ULO3


Apply critical thinking techniques and IT Identify relevant and irrelevant information to a Learn and identify different types of
discourse to identify and analyse problems problem. arguments
from technical and non-technical
perspectives.

☒ULO4 ☒ULO5 ☒ULO6


Develop strategies using generic and IT Create algorithms using the input- Develop tests using assertions to evaluate and
specific techniques to explore algorithms. processing-output model, defining diagrams ensure correctness of algorithms
and pseudo-code to demonstrate simple
program design.
Please read the full assignment details that follow.

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Question 1 [5 marks]
Draw an IPO Chart aka defining diagram for the following problem statement (5 marks).
Hint: You only need to determine what is to be done in the program, not how it is done i.e. you are not asked to
write an algorithm here.

A program that receives three temperature readings on a particular day, one in the morning, one in the
afternoon and one at night. It accepts those readings as integers only, and calculates and displays to the
screen the average temperature, calculated by

(morning temperature + afternoon temperature + night temperature)/3

It also determines and displays the maximum and minimum of the three temperatures of the day. If a non-
integer is read, your program will display an error message and prompt the user again for a temperature
reading.

Question 2 [10 Marks]


Develop an algorithm based on the defining diagram of Q1. Your solution will be presented as pseudocode with
appropriate comments.

Write an algorithm for the temperature program in Q1.


Hint: Now that you’ve determined what have to be done, you must work out how they can be done.

Question 3 (15 Marks)


Develop an algorithm for the following problem statement. Your solution should be in a modularised
pseudocode form with appropriate comments. Assume all data from the file is valid.

Develop an algorithm for a program that reads from a data file, employee.txt, employee records: the
employee number, pay rate and the number of hours worked in a week. The first integer read from the
first row of the file indicates the number of employee records stored in the file. Every employee record is
made up of a pay rate and the hours worked. Your program will continue reading and validating each
employee record. And, if valid, it will compute and print to the screen the employee’s weekly pay. It will
continue to read, validate and process all the employee records.
According to the company’s rules, the maximum hours an employee can work per week is 50 hours, and
the maximum hourly rate is AUD25.00 per hour. If the hours worked or the hourly rate is out of range,
your program prints an error message: Error: hours worked out of range, or Error: hourly rate out of
range.
Weekly pay is calculated as [hours worked] times [pay rate]. If more than 35 hours are worked, payment
for the overtime hours worked is calculated at time-and-three-quarters.
Steps to undertake:
1. Start by creating a defining diagram of the problem. (recommended for planning)
2. Then, expound on your solution algorithm in pseudocode.
3. The final form must be modularised. (required for submission)

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Question 4 (20 Marks)
Develop an algorithm for the following problem statement. Your solution should be a modularised
pseudocode with relevant and meaningful comments and a hierarchy chart. You should provide appropriate
error messages

A domestic gas supply company, Energy Australia Ltd., records its customers’ gas usage figures on a
customer usage file. Each record in the file contains the customer’s number, name, address, and gas usage
expressed in cubic metres.
Design a solution algorithm that will read the customer gas usage data, calculate the amount owing for gas
usage for each customer, and then print a report listing each customer’s number, name, address, gas usage
and the amount owing. At the end of completing a customer usage report, it prompts the user if s/he
wants to continue. If s/he enters ‘yes’, your program will continue from the outset and accept another
customer’s gas usage data. If s/he enters ‘no’, your program terminates.
The company bills its customers according to the following rate: if the customer’s usage is 68 cubic metres
or less, a rate of AUD2.10 per cubic metre is applied; if the customer’s usage is more than 68 cubic metres,
then a rate of AUD1.73 per cubic metre is applied for the first 68 cubic metres and AUD1.53 per cubic
metre for the remaining usage.
At the end of the report, print the total number of customers and the total amount owing to the company
by the customers.
Steps to undertake:
1. You must first create a defining diagram for this problem. (recommended for planning your solution)
2. Then, group the activities into modules and construct a hierarchy chart to visualise the modularisation
of your program. (required for submission)
3. Establish the algorithm of the main function, and (required for submission)
4. Develop the algorithm for each successive module outlined in your hierarchy chart. (required for
submission)

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