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PROBLEM-SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING (15 marks)

Specific The effectiveness with which candidate(s) employed Mark Maximum
Objective techniques to create or design Allocation marks per
sub-section
S7: SO5 Flowchart or pseudocode (6)
 Start of Algorithm 1
 Identifying user-friendly variable names 1
 Initialising variables 1

Processing
 Request for data (prompt) 1
 Storing data (reading data)
 Appropriate and logical use of structures
– Selection 1
– Looping 1
S7: SO7 Trace table (3)
Variables identified in trace table 1
Appropriate test data 1
Changes in values correctly demonstrated 1

S8: SO2 Program Execution (2)
Working program 2
Some errors 1

Program language features / working solution (3)
Variable initialisation 1
S8: SO5 Control structures:
 Appropriate use of selection statements (if- 1
then, if-then-else, or case statement)
 Looping – (while, repeat or for) 1

S8: SO7 Documentation (1)
Program documentation (such as author, date 1
created, statement of problem, and suitable inline
comments)

CXC 30/G/SYLL 17 41