Week 8, Post 1. Strings test preparation!

Hello world, and welcome to another week in awesome review. Lots of preparation this week, due to the programming contest coming up. As well as the strings test. We have gone through quite a few programs recently. Some of which, are actually kind of ridiculous. A.K.A. VIN program.

On the test, there are going to be a few problems. Like the VIN number problem, which is ridiculous. Knowing that most people probably won't attempt to look at it, I seriously wonder how Mr. Chiarelli thinks he is going to pull it off. Why is this I say? Because if one was too look at wikipedia, It is a ridiculous question to give to a first time user. This is more like a inclass assignment on the computer, or an assignment, since it is certainly difficult enough.

Why is this? Let us say we have a VIN number of

1

M

8

G

D

M

9

A

N/A

K

P

0

4

2

7

8

8

Each number would retain it's numerical value, each letter is assigned a numerical value. However, to do this, first one must make a table of values, one of the location of the letter in its assigned value, and the value depending on location of each letter. Not to mention , you then multiply these numerical values of letters/numbers into the weighted numerical values depending on their location. Then one gets the check value. If the check value is correct, then it will equal the 9th digit. Really rather putting off, considering it took me about 2 hours to do this on the computer, and it is on a written test where you can't error check simple mistakes in code that make this program so ridiculously difficult. Ah well, at least I am done it for now, and am prepared for the test.