Introduction to Programming

Assignment Brief

Description:

The assignment is given as three separate tasks. Each task is to be answered individually. Task 1 has been written and designed to check your knowledge and understand of data structures and programming techniques, including pseudocode. Task 2 checks your knowledge and understanding of Algorithms and arrays, in order for you to put given integers in the correctly stated order. Task 3 gives you the opportunity to write an extended code, once the initial pseudocode has been written. This particular task will check your knowledge and understanding of loops and IF statements.

Note:

The code that you write in order to complete all three tasks will be documented in two ways. The first being screenshotted evidence within your submitted word document, with detailed reasoning and justification for your processes. Secondly, your written code for each task that you have screenshotted, will be copy / pasted into the appendices at the end of your submission, so it can be checked for validity within the software.

 

Learning outcomes:

After completing the modules you should be able to:

  • LO1 Develop an understanding of data structures and programming techniques in context of a programming language.
  • LO2 Demonstrate an understanding of how programs are developed i.e. from concept to development and testing.
  • LO3 Demonstrate an ability to write programs using appropriate structure and language rules.

Assignment Task

Task 1:

Building contractor

You are developer and you wish to build five new houses, all from wood and all uniform. Each house has 3 rooms, all with exactly the same dimensions, i.e. 2m x 4m. Wood prices have been set at £6.00 per meter. You need to determine the total cost of the build of all five houses. Initially, you will need to write the pseudocode to solve the following problem, define the variable name and data types, plus write the code to solve the total build cost.

Hint: Determine the area of each room in each house and the total area of all rooms combined. Thus, giving the total price of the construction.

 

Task 2:

Internet traffic

As a digital business analysist, you have been asked by your line manager to supply the last seven months traffic figures to your company’s website. At the moment, the traffic numbers are not in ascending order. Write the pseudocode to solve the initial problem and then write a Java algorithmic program to sort the array of given traffic figures. The traffic numbers to sort correctly are:  2, -17, 8, 26, 1, 0, 84

Hint: Bubble sort

Task 3

Car repairs

An owner of an auto repair shop wishes to organise his team of mechanics at the beginning of the day. To make the distribution of work equal, he organises cars with an even amount of faults into bay 1 and cars with an odd amount of faults into bay 2. There are nine cars in total Write the pseudocode for the problem, then write a Java program to separate the even and odd number of car faults. Have all even numbers displayed first, then odd numbers at the end. The repairs required for each car are as follows. 18, 14, 12, 6, 4, 21, 19, 9, 3