Computer Science (AS & A Level) · Oct / Nov 2024 · Paper 22 · Question 8

A program is being developed to implement a game for up to six players. During the game, each player assembles a team of characters. At the start of the game there are 45 characters available. Each character has four attributes, as follows: Attribute Examples Comment Player 0, 1, 3 The player the character is assigned to. Role Builder, Teacher, Doctor The job that the character will perform in the game. Name Bill, Lee, Farah, Mo The name of the character. Several characters may perform the same role, but they will each have a unique name. Level 14, 23, 76 The skill level of the character. An integer in the range 0 to 100 inclusive. The programmer has defined a record type to define each character. The record type definition is shown in pseudocode as follows: TYPE CharacterType DECLARE Player : INTEGER DECLARE Role : STRING DECLARE Name : STRING DECLARE Level : INTEGER ENDTYPE The Player field indicates the player to which the character is assigned (1 to 6). The field value is 0 if the character is not assigned to any player. The programmer has defined a global array to store the character data as follows: DECLARE Character : ARRAY[1:45] OF CharacterType At the start of the game all record fields are initialised, and all Player field values are set to 0 The programmer has defined a program module as follows: Module Description Assign() • called with two parameters: ○ an integer representing a player ○ a string representing a character role • search the Character array for an unassigned character with the required role • If found, assign the character to the given player and output a confirmation message, for example: "Bill the Builder has been assigned to player 3" • If no unassigned character with the required role is found, output a suitable message.

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