In order to complete Assignment 1 Task
c, you
need to state what the program will need to output. Then you will need
to state the output units. If you require a different
example, you can read the
Modern Carpets
Case Study section, describing what the carpet program needs to output.
Here is a the company scenario again:-
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The Lawnsword Garden Design
Company
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Scenario:
Lawnsword Garden Design specialises in
designing and producing lawns and old-fashioned
hay meadows for clients.
Hay meadows, which contain mixtures of grass
and wild flowers, are always produced by sowing
seed.
Lawns may be made by laying prepared turf or
by sowing seed. It is the seed sowing which
causes a problem, since different types of seeds
cover different areas. Ms Jane Lawnsword, who
is the proprietor of the business, spends many
hours calculating the amount of seeds required
for each job and she now feels that she should
be able to enlist the help of a computer to
ease her workload.
You have volunteered to attempt to solve the
“seed sowing problem” and Ms Lawnsword has passed
you details of one of the pending jobs.
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All programs need to take input
from the user or from some other source such as another system or
computer. A program usually produces output of some sort.
Example 1: When you use the
Windows Calculator program you might type in
two numbers and ask the program to add the numbers together. The
output would be the answer which the program displays to you.
Example 2: When you use the
a Word Processor, the inputs are whatever you type in using the keyboard or
parts of the program you click with the mouse. The outputs are the
words you have typed in displayed on screen to you. When you save the
document to a file, this is a kind of output. When you print out your
document this is another type of output.
Your Seed Program: We
know that the inputs will be things like the number of standard lawn or hay
meadow shapes. What will the outputs be?
Here are some sentences that might
help you decide what the outputs of Ms Lawnsword's program should be:-
"Ms Jane Lawnsword, who is
the proprietor of the business, spends many hours calculating the amount
of seeds required for each job"
"In the future Ms
Lawnsword wants to use the program to work out the seeds needed for
different combinations of the four basic shapes so your program should
be written with this in mind"
"The program
must calculate how much of each seed type should be sown, and how many
whole bags of each seed must be purchased."
~~Activity~~
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Activity A
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- Look at the sentences
above and write down as briefly as you
can the two things your program needs to
output.
- What units will these
outputs be in? Think of the units of
areas and the units of weights.
- It may help you to carry out some of
the calculations yourself. Try and
answer these
questions
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You should have completed most of this task by carrying out
Activity A.
Now type up the information you have written down for
Activity A in the style shown below.
Write your name in the document header.
The structure of your document should be as follows:-
Assignment 1: Investigating the Problem:
Task
c: What the program has to produce and what units
Here you should put your answer
using your Activity A results.
