A-level Computing/AQA/Problem Solving, Programming, Data Representation and Practical Exercise/Skeleton code/2012 Exam/Section B
Section B Introduction
This section will ask you questions that you will have to find programming solutions to. There will be more than one way of answering each question, so the answers below are only indicative of what we are looking for. As long as you get the same answers it doesn't matter how you do it. You may be given pseudeocode to help you program the problem.
Batting Averages
Write a program to enter batting scores until the number -1 is input. And then output the total and average score.
Mirayde's One
Answer:
Dim Score As Integer
Dim Ave As Integer = 0
Dim Total As Integer = 0
Dim C As Integer = 0
Do
Console.Write("Enter Score: ")
Score = Console.ReadLine
If (Score <> -1) Then
Total = Total + Score
End If
C = C + 1
Loop Until Score = -1
Ave = Total / C
Console.Write(" Your Total Is: " & Total)
Console.WriteLine()
Console.Write(" Your Average Is: " & Ave)
Console.ReadLine()
Password Cracking
Write code to keep asking for login, only accepting: username= PSN Password = easy. Otherwise it should say. “Not hacked yet”:
Answer:
Dim username As String
Dim password As String
Do
Console.WriteLine("Enter username: ")
username = Console.ReadLine
Console.WriteLine("Enter password: ")
password = Console.ReadLine
If username = "PSN" And password = "easy" Then
Console.WriteLine("Hacked!")
Else
Console.WriteLine("Not Hacked yet")
End If
Loop Until username = "PSN" And password = "easy"
Console.ReadLine()
Christmas Trees
Write code to print out a Christmas tree of a user defined size: even rows = *, odd = #. For example for the number 4 it should output:
#
**
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Answer:
Dim number As Integer
Console.WriteLine("Please enter a number: ")
number = Console.ReadLine
For count = 1 To number
If count Mod 2 = 0 Then
For x = 1 To count
Console.Write("*")
Next
Console.WriteLine()
Else
For x = 1 To count
Console.Write("#")
Next
Console.WriteLine()
End If
Next
Console.ReadLine()