Ass2 Q3b

Please note there is a misprint in the code given in this question (in Tut Letter 101). The for loop should read

for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)

Um, what about us people who have submitted the assignment ages ago?

Well it did read: for (int i = 0; i < 4)
which is invalid code, and by looking at the context of the question it should be quite obvious that it needs to loop 3 times anyway.

Seeing as the question is about the values of certain variables after.
a) the first iteration
b) the second iteration and
c) the third iteration
(if I remember correctly).

So it shouldn't really have any outcome on peoples answers anyway?

Hehe... are some of us leaving the assignment submission a bit late? Seriously though, I've come to the conclusion that if a paper has an error like that I just add an assumption. Here's what I did for that question:

"The for loop in this program has the following issues:

• It only has 2 parameters. Either it will not compile or it will never terminate. The third parameter should be i++.
• If the intention of the loop is to swap every list entry with the variable value, then the condition must be i < 5."

At least with the assignments we can moan to the lecturers a bit, but when it gets to the exams we're going to need a ready solution. I'd hate to lose marks in an exam because someone forgot to add a semi-colon.

Incidentally, I wonder if we would get full marks for the question if we had just answered - "There will be no values, since the code will not compile."