First Pascal programming assignment

Due Tuesday, October 3^rd by 9pm

Program is to be submitted to the Blackboard Digital drop box

Source code, sample input, and sample output are to be submitted to drop box as a .zip file

All submitted files should have your name3 (mine would be Liz3 or Adams3)

Folder with printouts of source code, sample input, sample output is due in my office (or mailbox) by 10am on Wednesday October 4^th

Please post questions about this assignment on the Blackboard Discussion Board

Write a Pascal program which will utilize the following Pascal capabilities:

• Reading from and writing to files
• Using records to store data
• Inserting data into an array, keeping the list in descending order at all times by the grade field of the record (yes, I know it’s a pain).

Your program should

• Describe itself to the user
• Obtain the name of the file in which the data is stored from the user (i.e. the input file name)
• Obtain the name of the file the user would like the file output to be stored in from the user.
• Print the data in each record as soon as the record has been created (to the screen)
• Print the data in each of the records in the array after each record has been inserted to the screen and to the output file. Have each record on a separate line. Have a blank line between lists.
• There will be data for (5) records in the input file.
• As the program ends, it should print to the screen a message telling the names of the input file and output file used and say that the program is done.

The records in the input file are student data records consisting of the following information. Each data item will be on a separate line.

• A student name
• A student age
• A student grade point average.

Hints:

• Be sure you are reading from the input file not the output file
• Be sure to use single quotes around your prompts and labels (not double quotes)
• Be sure to use a period between your record variable and its field (not a comma)
• Remember that you are being asked to write some things to the screen and some things to the output file.
• Note we are using arrays in this program.
• Write a bit of code to do one task at a time. When it works, make it into a procedure and think about what the parameters should be.
• The shortest way to have output go to two destinations (file and screen) is to write a procedure to produce the output and pass the destination as a parameter.
• File parameters should be var parameters.
• Use text as your file type.
• Read this list of requirements and hints carefully multiple times.