Skip to content

Course home

Algorithms

Algorithms

EasyMediumHard
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667686970717273747576
Question 44

A local club organises a swimming gala. Swimmers are ranked in ascending order of their race completion times.

The rankings are updated after each heat.

The pseudocode for part of the program used to sort and update the swimming rankings is shown below.

1 PROCEDURE sortTimes()
2 BEGIN PROCEDURE
3     SET temp TO []
4     FOR i FROM 0 TO LENGTH(swimTimes) - 1 DO
5         FOR j FROM 0 TO LENGTH(swimTimes) - 1 DO
6             IF swimTimes[j][2] > swimTimes[j + 1][2] THEN
7                 SET temp TO swimTimes[j]
8                 SET swimTimes[j] TO swimTimes[j + 1]
9                 SET swimTimes[j + 1] TO temp
10            END IF
11        END FOR
12    END FOR
13 END PROCEDURE

The algorithm compiles successfully, but includes an error on line 6 when it runs.

Name this type of error.

[1]
Markscheme

Algorithms Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Algorithms

159 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Algorithms, covering Constructs for solving problems, Variables, constants and data structures, Arithmetic, relational and logical operators, Tracing algorithm output with trace tables, Types of error and correcting logic errors, Standard algorithms (sorts and searches), and Evaluating algorithm fitness and efficiency. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

Question bank