Description

• An experiment has taken place which measures the reaction speeds of students. Each student is aged from 12 to 16, and belongs to a school house (Saturn or Mars). A program is required to store the age, school house and reaction time of each student in the school. There are 650 students in the school.

• The program should be able to output the reaction times of different student groups.

• Write and test a program for the school.

  • Your program must include appropriate prompts for the entry of data.
  • Error messages and other output need to be set out clearly.
  • All variables, constants and other identifiers must have meaningful names.

• You will need to complete these three tasks. Each task must be fully tested.

TASK 1 – Set up arrays and store records

• Set up one-dimensional arrays for the whole school to store the following data:
  • The age of each student in whole years
  • The school house of each student
  • The reaction time of each student
• Input and store the records for an appropriate sample of students. Inputs must be validated on entry and any invalid inputs rejected.

TASK 2 – Output school house based statistics

• Using your sample, calculate and output the average reaction times for students in Saturn and students in Mars.

TASK 3 – Output statistics based on user input

• Extend your program to prompt users to input a specific age and school house. Using only records that match the criteria input, the program should identify, calculate and output:
  • The average reaction time
  • The slowest reaction time
• The output should include a suitable message for each of the reaction times identified.