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SQA Computing Higher Past Paper Marking Instructions

I have merged the Marking Instructions from 2007 to 2011 into one file, I have removed the extra section 3s. You will need your Glow username and password to access them.

Using adobe acrobat you will be able to search for keywords and find both the questions and answers for them. A little bit of self control will be required so you don’t read the answer before answering the questions, but I am sure you can manage that.

How did you get on with converting questions into flash cards?

Today’s little problem

So this got the heart racing today for some of you 🙂

Another subprogram in the building management software is used to find the range of temperatures in a building in one day. The temperature is recorded every 15 minutes within a 24 hour period and stored in a list.
Use pseudocode to design one algorithm to find both the highest and lowest temperatures in this list. (5Marks)

It was from the 2010 past paper, I asked you to code out the program. This program looks complicated but was a walk in the park for some people in the class, the rest of you need to go over the standard algorithms.

I gave you this snippet of code to create the data.

For counter = 1 To 96

temps(counter) = Int((Rnd() * 30) + 1)

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