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AQA GCSECOMPUTER SCIENCEPAPER 1 COMPUTATIONAL THINKING AND PROGRAMMING SKILLS – C# QP MAY 2024
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AQA GCSECOMPUTER SCIENCEPAPER 1COMPUTATIONAL THINKING AND
PROGRAMMING SKILLS – C# QP MAY 2024
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GCSE
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Paper 1 Computational thinking and programming skills – C#
Wednesday 15 May 2024 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours
Materials
• There are no additional materials required for this paper.
• You must not use a calculator.
Instructions
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• Answer all questions.
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided.
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• Questions that require a coded solution must be answered in C#.
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The total number of marks available for this paper is 90.
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0 1 Figure 1 shows an algorithm, represented using pseudo-code.
The algorithm assigns different values to two variables, then asks the user to input a letter.
Figure 1
film "Godzilla vs. Kong" year 2021
OUTPUT "Please guess a letter" letter USERINPUT
0 1 .1 Which pseudo-code statement assigns the length of the string film to a variable called value?
Shade one lozenge.
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A film LEN(value)
B film film + value
C value film
D value LEN(film)
0 1 .2 The POSITION subroutine returns the position of the first occurrence of a character in a
string.
For example:
• POSITION("Godzilla vs. Kong", "o") would return 1
• POSITION("Godzilla vs. Kong", "z") would return 3
letter and film are variables used in the algorithm in Figure 1.
Complete the pseudo-code statement to find the position of the first occurrence of the contents
of letter in film and store this position in the variable location
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