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[charlote]

Need help with pseudocode problem:

Here is the question?
Secondhand Rose Resale shop is having a 7 day sale during which the price of any unsold item drops 10% each day. The inventory File includes an item number, description, and original price on day one. For example, an item that costs $10.00 on the 1st day costs 10% less, or $9.00, on the 2nd day. On the 3rd day the same item is 10% less than $9.00 or $8.10. Design an application that reads inventory records and produces a report that shows the price of every item on each day, one through seven.

What I have done so far is :

Open inventory File
Read one record in inventory File
while there are still records in the inventory file

Price = record.Original_Price
for i = 1 to 7
print price for day, i
print record_ItemNumber, description, price
price = price * 0.9


Am I doing it right.? The problem is I don't want to use For Loop here.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks,
Charlotte

[WingedPanther]

Why don't you want to use for loops? It's the natural option.

Moved to its own thread.

[charlote]

Hi!

ITA. For loop would be the best option.
Just trying different options. Moreover I have been asked to use while loop..

In that case, would this be correct?

while i<=7
do(statement)
endwhile

my question is if I use the "price = price*0.9" would it work? would it automatically take 2nd day's price to calculate 3rd day's discount?

Thank you,
Charlotte

[WingedPanther]

Yes, that would work. Just be sure to increment i as part of "statement"

[charlote]

Thank you!

Charlote

[charlote]

WingedPanther,

If I need some help with flowcharts, where do I look? I am having trouble with arrays actually. Can you help?

[BlaineSch]

Post any questions in the forum and tons of members would be happy to assist you with your flow chart and array problem.

What exactly are you having issues with?

[charlote]

here is my code,

start
  num teamNum
  string firstName
  string lastName
  num SIZE = 5
  string teams[SIZE] = "Goal Getters", "The Force", "Top Guns", "Shooting Stars", "Midfield Monsters"
  read firstName, lastName, teamNum
  while not eof
        if teamNum ?=1 AND teamNum <= SIZE then
             print firstName, lastName, teamNum, teams[teamNum-1]
        else 
             print "Invalid team Number"
        endif
        get firstName, lastName, teamNum
    endwhile

(This code is to read the data from the file and to create a report that lists each player along with his team number and team name)
I want to modify this one to count the total number of players in each team (using the read data) and display/print list of players in each team( display /print total count in each team and team name)
how do I use subscript in print module? Do I need to use individual team name?


To count I actually did the following:

num teamCount [SIZE] = 0
  If teamNum >= 1 AND teamNum<= SIZE then
       teamCount[teamNum-1] = teamCount[teamNum-1] +1
  else
     print "Invalid team number"
  endif
  read firstName,lastName, teamNum
endwhile
while teamNum<SIZE
   print teamNum+1, teamCount[teamNum], teams???(this is where I don't know how to display/print teamName?)
   teamNum = teamNum + 1
 endwhile
stop

Edited by WingedPanther, 07 March 2010 - 05:42 PM.
add code tags

[WingedPanther]

You've got an endwhile without a while...
I think you need a two-dimensional array to hold the team members. Do you have a spec on the file format?

[WingedPanther]

You've got an endwhile without a while...
I think you need a two-dimensional array to hold the team members. Do you have a spec on the file format?

[charlote]

I am just learning the basics(pseudo code and flowchart). I don't have any spec on file format. I think "endwhile" was my mistake.

num teamCount [SIZE] = 0
read firstName, lastName, teamNum
while not eof
If teamNum >= 1 AND teamNum<= SIZE then
teamCount[teamNum-1] = teamCount[teamNum-1] +1
else
print "Invalid team number"
endif
read firstName,lastName, teamNum
endwhile
while teamNum<SIZE
print teamNum+1, teamCount[teamNum], teams???(this is where I don't know how to display/print teamName?)
teamNum = teamNum + 1
endwhile
stop

Would this be correct one?

Thanks for your quick reply

I forgot to ask how do I upload the flowchart file? Can I just attach the VISIO files here?

Edited by Vswe, 08 March 2010 - 05:11 AM.
Don't double post, edit instead.

[WingedPanther]

Please use code tags (the # button) and indentation to make your pseudocode readable.