Unit #1-03

Learning Outcome

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• create an application that uses decision statements

Review

• decisions in code

  • including error checking with try ... catch

Lesson

• read "Structured Problem Solving", Chapter 2, Computer Based Problem Solving

  • read up to and including "Selection"

Daily Assignment

• read the following problem:

  • A small microwave is being built just to reheat lunch items. The user selects the item and the number of them that they placed in the microwave (max 3 and they must all be the same items). The engineers have figured out the correct time to heat 1 of each item. It is also known that if you have 2 of them, you should increase the time by 50% and if you have 3 of them you increase it by 100%. Use the following items and times:

    • 1 x sub  = 1 minute

    • 1 x pizza  = 45 seconds

    • 1 x soup = 1 minute 45 seconds

• you must include error checking from now on!

  • no crashing programs no matter the input!

Extra

• do the above in a second language