Pascal Program #1 - Re-write of FORTRAN (1,2,or 3) in Pascal
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Points off |
Problem # |
Description |
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-5 |
1.
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fails to warn about maxint |
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-5 |
2.
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fails to prompt for data |
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-1 each |
3.
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spelling error or wrong word error or grammar error |
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-5 |
4.
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missing purpose |
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-5 |
5.
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missing input description |
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-5 |
6.
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missing output description |
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-5 |
7.
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missing intro to user |
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8.
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very nice comments about
language +5
bonus |
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-5 |
9.
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tells how to end instead of using eof or eoln (see #24) |
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-5 |
10.
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computes area using ending data (says
that entering 0 or a negative number for one of the values will end the
program but then goes and computes an area using the values) |
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-5 |
11.
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failing to echo input |
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-5 |
12.
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not nicely formatted (i.e. in exponential form) - we formatted our
output in FORTRAN and need to be able to do it in other languages |
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-5 |
13.
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output not labeled visible at runtime |
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-5 |
14.
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your program could use a few words explaining your algorithm |
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-1 each |
15.
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missing an item from the heading |
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-2 |
16.
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incomplete or inaccurate description of purpose - is a description of what the program is supposed to do
(i.e. find the area of an unspecified number of trapezoids where the user
enters the lengths of the bases and the height for each one OR
sorts three integers input by the user into descending order. |
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-2 |
17.
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incomplete or inaccurate input description - (e.g. input is
three real numbers on a single line
representing the bases and the height for each of the trapezoids the
program is to find the area of or thee integers on a single line representing the numbers to be
sorted. |
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-2 |
18.
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incomplete or inaccurate output description includes an introduction to the user telling what the
program will do; prompts for desired input data; echo of input data with labels; labeled output of the results |
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-2 |
19.
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incomplete or inaccurate intro |
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-5 |
20.
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no comments about language - for
each language, explanations of what the particular language statement or
construct is doing and/or how it differs from what a previous language
required |
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-2 |
21.
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not enough comments about language |
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-3 |
22.
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"why did you" comments from me |
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-2 each |
23.
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using global variables - some
languages (i.e. Pascal) allow the programmer to use global variables. It is considered bad programming practice
to be avoided. |
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-5 each |
24.
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you added a requirement which is not part of the specification (e.g. required integers when the original programming specification said the program expected real numbers OR handling a single data set when the specifications didn't say that only 1 data set was to be processed. |
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-3 |
25.
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you have an erroneous statement |
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-10 |
26.
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no executable on disk |
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-20 |
27.
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program doesn’t compile |
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28.
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runtime error |
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-1 each |
29.
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inaccurate comment about language or code |
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-5 |
30.
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missing (input, output) in header -
standard Pascal requires that you include input whenever there is keyboard
input and output whenever there is output to the
screen in your program. |
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-5 |
31.
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improper use of Boolean variable in a test condition (e.g.
while
(booleanVar = false) do instead
of while (not
booleanVar) do |
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-2 |
32.
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prompt to user is incomplete |