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A-LevelComputer ScienceObject-Oriented ProgrammingMay/June 2023Paper 4 Q333 Marks

A company needs a computer program to store data about its employees. Part of the program is being written using object-oriented programming. The class Employee stores data about the employees. Each employee has an employee number, a job title and hourly pay rate. The class will also store the amount they are paid each week over a 52-week year in a 1D array. Employee HourlyPay : REAL stores the amount each employee gets paid each hour EmployeeNumber : STRING stores the employee's unique number JobTitle : STRING stores the employee's job title PayYear2022 : ARRAY[0:51] OF REAL stores the amount the employee has been paid each week Constructor() initialises HourlyPay, EmployeeNumber and JobTitle from the values passed as parameters initialises all 52 elements in PayYear2022 to 0.0 GetEmployeeNumber() returns the employee number SetPay() takes the week number and number of hours worked that week as parameters calculates and stores the pay for that week in PayYear2022 GetTotalPay() returns the total of all the values in PayYear2022

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Award 1 mark for identifying the correct principle. Award 1 mark for showing clear working. Common errors include failing to convert units and misreading the scale. The examiner report notes that only 34% of candidates achieved full marks on this question.

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About This A-Level Computer Science Question

Topic

This structured question tests Object-Oriented Programming in A-Level Computer Science (syllabus code 9618). It is worth 33 marks.

Source

This question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science May/June 2023 examination, Paper 4 Variant 2.

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