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help with selection exercises

Author:  goblue21 [ Wed May 16, 2007 7:48 am ]
Post subject:  help with selection exercises

Please i need help for my computer programming class and our teacher never taught us this stuff heres the question:

Write a program to divide a class of students in two groups: those whose last names begin with A to H and those that begin with I to Z. Ask a person to enter their last name and the output a message indicating which group they are in. Repeat for each student.

any tips or code would be greatly appreciated. Very Happy

Author:  goblue21 [ Wed May 16, 2007 8:31 am ]
Post subject:  Re: help with selection exercises

Alright i made some code and it seems to only be working for lower case and im trying to get upper case to work can someone please help.

var firstname, lastname : string


put "type your first name"
get firstname
delay (100)
put "type you last name"
get lastname
delay (100)

if lastname <= "j" or lastname <= "J" then
put "you are in group one"
elsif lastname >= "h" or lastname >= "H" then
put "you are in group two"
end if

Author:  DIIST [ Wed May 16, 2007 5:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: help with selection exercises

Turing:

if (lastname >= "a" and lastname <= "j") or (lastname >= "A" and lastname <= "J") then
    put "you are in group one"
else
    put "you are in group two"
end if

^This should help. You dont need to have an elsif. Wink

Author:  goblue21 [ Thu May 17, 2007 8:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: help with selection exercises

thank you so much worked really well


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