Apr 08, 2005 14:19
Just finished up our senior tests for vo-tech. Only 5 of us were able to complete the program. We had 4 hours to complete the program, including the flow chart display writeup and sourcecode. I finished the flowchart and display writup an hour into the test. Started on my source code, and got about an hour into that when I realised how I had set up the output wouldn't work. We had to use COBOL to design a program that will display a database that you create, and total the information. You also needed to have error catches so any data that doesnt fit the criteria would get marked as an invalid peice of data. Well since we were using COBOL I could have put out the output two ways. One being a datafile, the other is using the DOS Console window. I used the Console window and later realized when I completed the program that you cant scroll up and down to see all of the information displayed....(nicely done windows...). Well anyway I had to rewrite my entire source code within the two hours time and get all the bugs out. Finally just got it done, made sure everything was correct and now I get to graduate from vo-tech. fun fun.