Thread: program design question

Hello everyone,
I came across a programming problem that I was wondering someone could help me out with.

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the problem:
A file of student records contains name, gender (M or F), age, and
marital status (single or married) for each student. Design an
algorithm that will read through the file and calculate the
numbers of married men, single men, married women, and single women. Print these
numbers on a Student Summary Report. If any single men are over 30 years of age,
print their names and ages on a separate Eligible Bachelors Report.
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Now, the part that stumped me about this was how I should go about creating the Bachelor Report.
My idea was to set up 2 while loops, the first one would set up the total number of married and
single people all under the student summary heading. Then, when that loop terminated,
print to the screen the Bachelor heading and then create another while loop
to read the file AGAIN and test for single men over 30. This felt very cumbersome,
and I was wondering if my logic is off.

my pseudocode:

Code:

print 'STUDENT SUMMARY REPORT'
read student record
WHILE more records exist
          IF gender = M THEN
                   IF status = married THEN
                            married_men++
                   ELSE
                            single_men++
                   ENDIF
          ELSE
                   IF status = married THEN
                            married_women++
                   ELSE
                            single_women++
                   ENDIF
          ENDIF
          read student record
ENDWHILE

print 'ELIGIBLE BACHELOR REPORT'
read student record (from beginning)
WHILE more records exist
          IF gender = M THEN
                  IF status = single THEN
                           IF age > 30 THEN
                                    print name, age
                           ENDIF
                  ENDIF
          ENDIF
          read student record
ENDWHILE

First off...I didnt realize I posted twice. My internet connection has been a little weird and probably caused me to do that.
Second...I'm having trouble deleting the other thread, cant say I didnt try.
Third...Formatting has NEVER been an issue when I've posted before (I've been posting for a long time), I find it funny that all of a sudden I have to manually insert line breaks...interesting...

And by the way, thanks for the reply, but sadly you were too focused on my posting shortcomings to provide any real insight thanks for the response though!