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Lab2 2024

The document provides instructions for a lab exercise to practice breaking problems down into steps. Students must write pseudocode or flowcharts for problems like reversing digits in a number or finding the frequency of a digit. Solutions are evaluated during the lab based on completeness and understanding.

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Lab2 2024

The document provides instructions for a lab exercise to practice breaking problems down into steps. Students must write pseudocode or flowcharts for problems like reversing digits in a number or finding the frequency of a digit. Solutions are evaluated during the lab based on completeness and understanding.

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(COMP-1400) Lab Exercises #2

Objective:
The main objective of this exercise is to help students to break down a problem into smaller units
and write a step-by-step solution for a given problem using a pseudocode or flowchart diagram.

Part A: a sample pseudocode and flowchart. Try to recreate this flowchart in Raptor (see raptor
flowchart at the end of the document). Part A is not graded, however you can recreate this
flowchart and modify it to solve Part B more effectively.

Problem: Get a positive integer value from the input and calculate and print the number of digits.

Sample Input Sample Output


10 2
150 3
266002 6

Solution:
1: Begin (Raptor flowchart on the last page)
2: Read (n)
3: count ß 0
4: While (n!=0) Do
5: n ß n/10
6: count ß count+1
7: End While
8: Print (count)
9: End

Description:
Assume the given number is n, use a loop
statement, and continuously divide the n by 10
until n becomes 0. Count the number of
iterations and print it. In fact, the number of
iterations represents the number of digits.

Note 1: If you want to know (extract) the last


digit of a number, you can always obtain it by
(n % 10) which is a reminder of dividing n by
10, e.g., if n is 1234, then (1234%10) is 4.
We name operation % as “mod” or “modulo”.

Note 2: By dividing a number, with d digits,


by 10, you can get the d-1 most significant
digits from the number, e.g., (1234/10) is 123
and similarly (678/10) is 67.
We name this “Integer Division”.

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Part B: Write a pseudocode or draw a flowchart for the following problems. To design/draw
the flowchart, you have the options to do it in different ways, using a flowchart software like
Raptor, or a graphical software like “https://www.draw.io”, or simply on a piece of paper.
Note: Two Software tools, Raptor and Flowgorithm, are available on CS servers using NoMachine.

Problem 1: Reverse the digits of a number

Get an integer number from the user and print the number in the reversed order on the
screen. Use math arithmetics to solve this problem (no lists/arrays or strings).

Sample Input Sample Output


15 51
126 621
266002 200662

Problem 2: Find the frequency of a digit in a number

Get an integer number, and a digit from the user and calculate and print out the frequency
of the given digit in the number. Use math arithmetics to solve this problem (no lists/arrays
or strings).

Sample Inputs Sample Output


123333 3 4
222545 4 1
555 2 0
922325 2 3

Hint: How the selection statement works (note Raptor has a selection component you can use).
1: Begin
2: Read (n)
3: IF (n >= 0) Then
4: print(“n is positive”)
5: ELSE
6: print(“n is negative”)
7: End IF
8: End
Description:
The program reads an integer from the user and
determines if the number is positive using ‘n
>= 0’ (n bigger than or equal to 0) and prints
the result, otherwise this means n must be
negative so we print “n is negative”.

EVALUATION: You need to show your GA/TA the complete pseudocode and/or flowcharts
during the lab. Grading is during lab 2 or at the very beginning of lab 3, brightspace submissions
are required but not used for grading. GAs/TAs should ask questions about the solutions presented.

The marks you will receive for this lab are made of two parts: Lab work marks 8 and attendance
marks 2. Total 10 marks.

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A sample Raptor flowchart for Part A

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