Background: In an effort to review a what we’ve covered so far in class, from coming up with an algorithm, flowchart, pseudo-code, and user stories.

You are to work alone, and submit your file(s) via Moodle. If you have more than one, please zip the files up into one file that can be submitted. Thank you. (You do not need to submit a grading sheet.)

Task: Given the following User Story, create both a flowchart and a pseudo-code for the given task. It should only take about 30 minutes to complete.

User Story

A user wants to calculate the change in pressure as the temperature changes. Using the ideal gas law, the user should be able to input the values for a base line only needing to calculate the pressure. Assume the correct units are being used, and no conversion is necessary.

Then the user should input the value for the new temperature, to calculate how the pressure has changed. If the pressure is > 50 units different, then a warning message should display. Assume all other values stay the same.

Grading

Use the right formula for the ideal gas law? (5 pts)

Properly calculate the first and second pressures? (5 pts)

Use the right symbols to create a proper flowchart? (20 pts)

Write understandably so that others can create a program from your pseudo-code? (20 pts)

Homework: Flowcharts and Pseudo-code was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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