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A-LevelComputer ScienceAlgorithms and PseudocodeMay/June 2021Paper 2 Q410 Marks

Study the following pseudocode. Line numbers are for reference only. 10 FUNCTION Convert(Name : STRING) RETURNS STRING 11 12 DECLARE Flag: BOOLEAN 13 DECLARE Index : INTEGER 14 DECLARE ThisChar : CHAR 15 DECLARE NewName : STRING 16 17 CONSTANT SPACECHAR = ' ' 18 19 Flag ← TRUE 20 Index ← 1 21 NewName ← "" // formatted name string 22 23 WHILE Index <= LENGTH(Name) 24 ThisChar ← MID(Name, Index, 1) 25 IF Flag = TRUE THEN 26 NewName ← NewName & UCASE(ThisChar) 27 IF ThisChar <> SPACECHAR THEN 28 Flag ← FALSE 29 ENDIF 30 ELSE 31 NewName ← NewName & ThisChar 32 ENDIF 33 IF ThisChar = SPACECHAR THEN 34 Flag ← TRUE 35 ENDIF 36 Index ← Index + 1 37 ENDWHILE 38 39 RETURN NewName 40 41 ENDFUNCTION

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This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science (9618) May/June 2021 examination, Paper 2 Variant 3. It tests the topic of Algorithms and Pseudocode and is worth 10 marks.

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