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Cambridge IGCSE™
COMPUTER SCIENCE 0478/21
Paper 2 Problem-solving and Programming May/June 2020
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INSTRUCTIONS
● You should use this material in preparation for the examination.
● You should attempt the practical programming tasks using your chosen high-level, procedural
programming language.
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Your preparation for the examination should include attempting the following practical tasks by writing
and testing a program or programs.
A shop sells a range of mobile devices, SIM cards and accessories as shown in the table:
Category Item code Description Price ($)
Phone BPCM Compact 29.99
Phone BPSH Clam Shell 49.99
Phone RPSS RoboPhone – 5-inch screen and 64 GB memory 199.99
Phone RPLL RoboPhone – 6-inch screen and 256 GB memory 499.99
Phone YPLS Y-Phone Standard – 6-inch screen and 64 GB memory 549.99
Phone YPLL Y-Phone Deluxe – 6-inch screen and 256 GB memory 649.99
Tablet RTMS RoboTab – 8-inch screen and 64 GB memory 149.99
Tablet RTLM RoboTab – 10-inch screen and 128 GB memory 299.99
Tablet YTLM Y-Tab Standard – 10-inch screen and 128 GB memory 499.99
Tablet YTLL Y-Tab Deluxe – 10-inch screen and 256 GB memory 599.99
SIM card SMNO SIM Free (no SIM card purchased) 0.00
SIM card SMPG Pay As You Go (SIM card purchased) 9.99
Case CSST Standard 0.00
Case CSLX Luxury 50.00
Charger CGCR Car 19.99
Charger CGHM Home 15.99
Write and test a program or programs for this shop.
• Your program or programs must include appropriate prompts for the entry of data; data must be
validated on entry.
• Error messages and other output need to be set out clearly and understandably.
• All arrays, variables, constants and other identifiers must have meaningful names.
You will need to complete these three tasks. Each task must be fully tested.
Task 1 – Setting up the system.
Write a program to:
• use appropriate data structures to store the item code, description and price information for the
mobile devices, SIM cards and accessories
• allow the customer to choose a specific phone or tablet
• allow phone customers to choose whether the phone will be SIM Free or Pay As You Go
• allow the customer to choose a standard or luxury case
• allow the customer to choose the chargers required (none, one or both may be purchased)
• calculate the total price of this transaction
• output a list of the items purchased and the total price.
Task 2 – Allow a customer to order multiple mobile devices.
Extend Task 1 to:
• offer the customer the opportunity to purchase an additional mobile device
• if required, perform bulleted steps 2 to 7 of Task 1 for each additional mobile device and calculate
a running total for the customer
• once no further devices are required, output the total the customer will need to pay.
Task 3 – Offering discounts.
Extend the program to allow a discount of 10% off the price of every additional phone or tablet
purchased.
Output the new total the customer will need to pay and the amount of money saved.
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