An engineer designing software for an oceanographic research buoy decides to store each telemetry reading as a record rather than a one-dimensional array as it needs to hold different attributes like temperature, depth, and timestamp.
Explain the characteristics of a record that make it suitable for this purpose.
44 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Data types and structures, covering Primitive and structured data types, Using variables and constants, and Manipulating strings. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.