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Level 1/Level 2
International GCSE (9–1)

Computer Science
Paper 2: Application of Computational Thinking

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September 2017
Time: 3 hours
4CP0/02
You must have: A computer workstation with appropriate programming Total Marks
language code editing software and tools, including a code interpreter/compiler,
CODES folder containing code and data files, pseudocode reference

Instructions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
• Answer all questions.
• Answer the questions requiring a written answer in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
• Only one programming language must be used throughout the test.
• code using
Carry out practical tasks on the computer system and save new or amended
the name given with the appropriate file extension.
• Do not overwrite the original code and data files provided to you.
• must not use the internet during the test.
You

Information
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets
• The CODES
This paper covers Python, C# and Java.
• The invigilatorfolder in your user area includes all the code and data files you need.
• will tell you where to store your work.

Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Check yourwork
Save your regularly.
• answers and work if you have time at the end.
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 Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.
1 Programmers use accepted programming constructs when writing code.
(a) Open the file Q01a in the code editor.
Answer these questions about the code.
(i) Identify the name given to a data structure in the code.
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(ii) Identify the line number(s) showing repetition.

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(iii) Identify the line number(s) showing selection.

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(iv) Identify the name of a variable.

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(b) Open the file Q01b in the code editor.

Answer these questions about the code.
(i) Identify one technique that could be used to make the code in Q01b more
readable.
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(ii) State one reason why code should be readable.

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 (c) (i) Give a definition of a syntax error.
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(ii) Open the file Q01c in the code editor.

Amend the code to correct three program errors.
Save your amended code as Q01cFINISHED with the correct file extension for
the programming language.
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(Total for Question 1 = 10 marks)

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2 A football club uses computer applications.
(a) The club collects this data about visitors:
• country of origin
• number of adults and children in each party.

This pseudocode contains the logic required to do this.

Write a program to implement the logic in the pseudocode.

Do not add any further functionality.
You must use the structure given in file Q02a to write the program.
Save your amended code as Q02aFINISHED with the correct file extension for the
programming language.
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 (b) Each seat in the football stadium has a unique identifier. The identifier is made up
of two letters and two numbers, separated by a hyphen.
AB-45, NP-98, ab-46, nP-90 are valid seat identifiers.
Complete the table to show two additional validation tests and invalid data.
(4)

Validation test Invalid data

Is hyphen included? AB^12

(c) The football club makes money selling tickets, food and other items. Attendance
at matches is also monitored.
At the end of each week, the data collected is processed.
Attendance is considered along with income (money coming in).
Open the file Q02c in the code editor.
Amend the code to complete the ‘If statement’ used to produce the outputs
described in the table. Do not add any further functionality.
Save your amended code as Q02cFINISHED with the correct file extension for the
programming language.

Condition Output message

Attendance is at least 1500 Sufficient profit made this week

Income is at least 45000 Sufficient profit made this week

Attendance is at least 750; income is at

Income in line with attendance this week
least 22500
Attendance is very low this week
Attendance is fewer than 500
Contact fan club

All other inputs Possible accounting error

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(Total for Question 2 = 18 marks)

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3 A holiday company has a website. They would like to publish the daily temperatures
in their most popular destinations.
(a) Describe one benefit of using subprograms.
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(b) The holiday company needs to be able to convert temperatures between Celsius
and Fahrenheit.
Open the file Q03b in the code editor.
Answer these questions about the code.
(i) Identify the name of a built-in subprogram in the code.
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(ii) Identify the name of a user-defined subprogram.

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(iii) Identify the name of one input parameter used in a subprogram.

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(iv) Identify the name of a subprogram that does not use input parameters.
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(v) Identify the name of a local variable.

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(vi) Identify the name of a global variable.

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(vii) One line in the code is identified as not working as expected.

State why this line does not work as expected.
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 (c) The holiday company needs to assign numbers to their most popular destinations.

Cities.txt Numbered.txt

The files Q03c and Cities.txt are provided.

Open the code named Q03c in the code editor.
Write a program to implement these requirements.
For all lines in the Cities.txt file, the code must:
• read the line
• append a line number and a space to the front
• write the new line to a Numbered.txt file
• print the line to the display
You must use the structure given in file Q03c to complete the program.
Do not add further functionality.
Save your amended code as Q03cFINISHED with the correct file extension for the
programming language.
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(Total for Question 3 = 16 marks)

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4 A list of numbers is to be sorted using a bubble sort algorithm.
(a) Give a definition of the term ‘algorithm’.
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(b) Here is a list of numbers that need to be sorted in ascending order.

28 7 26 21 34 18 16 9

Perform the first pass of a bubble sort.

Use this space for working to help you answer the questions.

(i) Complete the table to show how the list will have changed at the end of the
first pass.
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(ii) State the number of comparisons made in the first pass.

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(iii) State the number of swaps made in the first pass.

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 (c) A bubble sort is only one type of sorting algorithm.
(i) Give one reason why a bubble sort is inefficient when sorting a large dataset.
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(ii) State the position in a list that will always remain unchanged after the first
pass of any ascending order bubble sort.
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5 Data, stored as numbers, is very easily processed using computer algorithms.
(a) Open the file Q05a in the code editor.
Complete the trace table to show the execution of the code.
You may not need to fill in all the rows in the table.
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 (b) Open the file named Q05b in the code editor.
Write a program to determine a discount based on an amount entered.
The program should:
• allow the user to input total spend
• display the output message based on the total spend entered.

Total spend Text output message

More than 300 Discount is 10%

More than 0 No discount

All other input Invalid input

No validation of input is required.

Save your amended code as Q05bFINISHED with the correct file extension for
the programming language.
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(Total for Question 5 = 10 marks)

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6 Open the file named Q06 in the code editor.
In file Q06, the names and years of birth of artists are stored in a 2-dimensional data
structure.
Labels for their work need to be created by joining the first letter of their last name,
the first letter of their first name and their year of birth.
For example, a label for (‘Andy’, ‘Warhol’, 1928) would be ‘WA1928’.
Write a program to:
• process each artist to create a label
• store all the labels in the data structure named ‘theLabels’
• display the labels for all the artists
• find and display the name and year of birth of the youngest artist.
Your program should function correctly, even if ‘theArtists’ data structure has
more, fewer, or different artists.
You must use the data structures in file Q06.
Save your amended code as Q06FINISHED with the correct file extension for the
programming language.

(Total for Question 6 = 20 marks)

TOTAL FOR PAPER = 80 MARKS

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