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Programming Concepts (Practical)

The document outlines the requirements and instructions for a practical examination in Programming Concepts for a National Certificate in Information Technology in Zimbabwe. It includes various programming tasks to be completed in C++, such as creating programs for displaying messages, determining palindromes, categorizing athletes by age, handling student data, sorting arrays, file operations, and creating a class for employee management. Candidates are required to submit both hardcopy and softcopy of their work, which must be printed and include specific outputs.

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Programming Concepts (Practical)

The document outlines the requirements and instructions for a practical examination in Programming Concepts for a National Certificate in Information Technology in Zimbabwe. It includes various programming tasks to be completed in C++, such as creating programs for displaying messages, determining palindromes, categorizing athletes by age, handling student data, sorting arrays, file operations, and creating a class for employee management. Candidates are required to submit both hardcopy and softcopy of their work, which must be printed and include specific outputs.

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ZIMBABWE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND ‘TERTIARY EDUCATION, INNOVATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT HIGHER EDUCATION EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (HEXCO) NATIONAL CERTIFICATE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MODULE: Programming Concepts (Practical) PAPER NO: 317/22/MO02B DURATION: 3 hours REQUIREMENTS 1) Computer with C++ compiler. 2) Printing facility. 3) Storage medium for each candidate. INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATE 1) Answer all questions. 2) Print both code and output. 3) Submit both hardcopy and softcopy- This paper consists of 4 printed pages. PAPER NO: 317/22/MO2B PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS (PRACTICAL) QUESTION 1 create a C++ program that displays the following using & single cout a) Create a ¢ cpvery program attempts to expand until itcan read Email. ‘Those programs which cannot are replaced” (8 marks) b) Write a program that allows the user to enter a number and it veiternines whether the number is a Palindrome or not. Your Progrem should display on appropriate message. NB: A number is said to be a Palindrome if the reverse of its digits is itself e.g. 959, 1551, 12421. (12 marke) QUESTION 2 a) Write a program that accepts the age of an athlete and displays the category in which the athlete is eligible to compete using the following classification, Age Group (in years) Category 8-10 Under eleven 11-16 Juniors 17-21 Seniors aa Open (10 marks) b) Write a program that capture and stores the name, age and gender of 5 students using structures. The program should display th ; the following format: e play the details using Student Details Student 1 Name: John Age: 21 Gender: Male 7 - PAPER NO: 317/22/M02B PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS (PRACTICAL) Student 2 Name: Tinotenda Age: 19 Gender: Female (10 marks) QUESTION 3 a) ‘Write a program that creates an array and initialise it with the following elements: CsTo [1 JT 200 [ 2 50, 90 4113 | 16 | Your program should sort the array in descending order and display the resultant array. (15 marks) b) Write a program that creates a text file and write the following information into the file: «Pile streams are used to store data permanently. A stream is an abstraction that represents a device on which operations of input and output are performed.” Your program should count and display the number of lines in the text file. (10 marks) QUESTION 4 a) Develop a program that displays the following output using loops: 2 5 8 ll 14 (17 20 23 26 29 32 35 38 41 44 (10 marks) b) Using function prototyping, write a program that requests the user to capture the first name and age of a customer in the main function and display them in a called function. (10 marks) , PAPER NO: 317/22/M02B PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS (PRACTICAL) QUESTION 5 Create a C++ program that includes a class called Employee. The class Employee should contain the following: a) Two (2) data members hours worked and salary. b) _ Amethod to capture the hours worked and salary. c) _ Amethod to add $500 to the salary if the salary is less than $1500. 4) Amethod to display the hours worked and the new salary. NB: Assume there are five (5) employees. (15 marks) suffer

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