Lab 4: Instructor's Notes

Suggestion: Call attention to the last paragraph of the introduction to Chapter 5:

"Sequence, selection, and repetition are the only control structures needed. A fundamental result of theoretical computer science states that any problem solvable by a computer program can be solved by one that is made up of sequence, selection, and repetition structures."

Up to now, the programs have been "straight-line" programs. None of them have involved selective execution of one or more statements or repetition of a collection of statements. This chapter and lab introduce the basic control mechanisms.

Here are:

Prelab Questions designed to check if students have read through the lab exercise in preparation for doing the lab exercise.

The lab home page

Some programming projects from or in addition to those in the textbook that tie in with the material in this lab exercise.

A gradesheet used by the author for the project assigned.

Report errors to Larry Nyhoff (nyhl@cs.calvin.edu)