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Homework 3 Iteration

Unit 1 Fundamentals of Programming

Homework 3 Programming Iteration Answers

1. Write a pseudocode algorithm using a FOR loop to read five lowercase letters and output
the largest and smallest. (a is less than b). [6]

maxletter = “a”
minletter = “z”
FOR index  1 to 5
OUTPUT “Enter a letter”
letter  USERINPUT
IF letter > maxLetter THEN
maxLetter  letter
END IF
IF letter < minLetter THEN
minLetter  letter
END IF
END FOR
OUTPUT maxLetter
OUTPUT minLetter

2. Write a pseudocode algorithm that asks a user for a password. They are allowed three
attempts to type the correct password, which is “Tues1212”.
If they type the correct password, output “Password accepted”, otherwise output “Password
rejected”. [6]

OUTPUT (“Please enter password: ”)


password = USERINPUT
attempts = 1
WHILE password <> "Tues1212" and attempts < 3
OUTPUT("Password incorrect - please re-enter: ")
password = USERINPUT
attempts = attempts + 1
ENDWHILE
IF password == "Tues1212" THEN
OUTPUT("password accepted")
ELSE
OUTPUT("password rejected")
END IF

3. (a) Complete the trace table below with the values supplied.

sunshine  0
maxHours  0
minHours  100
totalSunshine  0

REPEAT
sunshine  INPUT
IF sunshine > maxHours Then
maxHours  sunshine

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ENDIF
IF sunshine < minHours THEN
minHours  sunshine
ENDIF
totalSunshine  totalSunshine + sunshine
UNTIL sunshine = -1
OUTPUT “Max sunshine hours:”, maxHours
OUTPUT “Min sunshine hours:”, minHours
OUTPUT “Total sunshine hours”, totalSunshine

Test Data 2 7 3 8 -1

sunshin totalSunshin
maxHours minHours Output
e e
0 0 100 0
2 2 2 2
7 7 9
3 12
8 8 20
-1 -1 19 8 -1 19
[4]

(b) What is the problem with the algorithm above?

The algorithm uses -1 to terminate but because it checks the termination after
calculating the max, min and total sunshine, the values printed are wrong. This can be
corrected by putting the first input statement before the loop is entered, and another
input statement just before the end of the loop as below. [2]

(c) This time the algorithm uses an entry condition WHILE loop. Complete the trace table
to see the difference between the two.

sunshine  0
maxHours  0
minHours  100
totalSunshine  0

sunshine  INPUT
WHILE sunshine <> -1
IF sunshine > maxHours THEN
maxHours sunshine
END IF
IF sunshine < minHours THEN
minHours  sunshine
ENDIF
totalSunshine sunshine + totalSunshine
sunshine  INPUT
END WHILE
OUTPUT “Max sunshine hours:”, maxHours

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OUTPUT “Min sunshine hours:”, minHours
OUTPUT “Total sunshine hours”, totalSunshine

Input data: 2 7 3 8 -1

Sunshine maxHours minHours TotalSunshine Output

0 0 100 0

2 2 2 2

7 7 9

3 12

8 8 20

-1 8 2 20

[2]

[Total 20 Marks]

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