This interactive quiz tests your understanding of the “Tallying Scores Program” scenario, a simple loop and accumulator example in basic programming constructs. This topic is primarily assessed in Paper 2: Practical Problem-solving and Programming.
To succeed, you should understand sequence, iteration with FOR loops, accumulator variables, input/output operations, and basic error types. We'll explore these concepts using the example of Jamie’s program to tally five players’ scores.
Scenario:
Jamie is writing a small program to tally the scores of five players in a game. Their pseudocode is:
1 total_score = 0
2 FOR i = 1 TO 5
3 score = INPUT("Enter score for player " + i + ": ")
4 total_score = total_score + score
5 ENDFOR
6 PRINT("Final total: " + total_score)