Computer Science (AS & A Level) · Oct / Nov 2024 · Paper 23 · 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. Skill level 14, 23, 76 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 SkillLevel : INTEGER ENDTYPE The Player field indicates the player to which the character is assigned (1 to 6). This 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 fields are set to 0 The programmer has defined a program module as follows: Module Description Count() • called with two parameters: ○ an integer representing a player ○ a string representing a character role • searches the Character array for characters with the given role that are assigned to the given player • counts the number of assigned characters and sums their total skill level • outputs the result of the search if characters with the given role are found, for example: "Player 3 has 4 characters with the role of Teacher and the total skill level is 65" • if no characters with the given role are found, outputs: "No characters with that role are assigned to this player"

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