COSC1306
Spring 2017
Assignment 3: Conditional Statements
[1] Objective: The primary purpose of this assignment is to make sure everyone is familiar with the ifstatement in various forms. In addition to that, we are also practicing some of the simple statements that
we introduced in class such as print(), len(), input(), eval(), assignment statement, expression, string,
etc. You don't need loop structures or functions.
[2] Description: You are going to print a sample diploma of the University. A sample template is given in
Display 1 below. Students with high enough GPAs will also earn an honor designation. Ignore the credit
hours requirement.
Upon the recommendation of the faculty, the Board of
trustees and the President of the University of
Houston confer upon
<<student name>>
the degree
Bachelor of Science
<<optional honors designation>>
with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereunto.
Display 1
You program should do the following.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Input a student’s name (first name followed by last name).
Ask for the student’s GPA by name.
Convert the GPA into a number (float).
Construct a string containing the honors designation (cum laude, etc.) of the student, the honor
should be an empty string if there is no honor designation. You should use an if-elif-else
statement here to separate various cases.
5. Set up all the lines of the diploma.
6. Print the diploma in a proper format.
When you print the diploma, do not print an empty line when there is no honor designation for the
student. See Display 2 and 3 for the difference of the two cases. Color and bold face are used to highlight
the "customization" of the diploma.
It takes some efforts to figure out how to center the text. You are allowed to use any reasonable method
to do that. I will explain some possible ways in class. For this purpose, you may assume the output uses
a fixed-width font, i. e., all characters are of equal with (Courier) and the total width of the paper is 60
characters wide.
This program may be longer than you expected. I used about 35 lines of code (NOT counting comments
and blank lines). The main reason is to deal with each of the output lines (up to 8 lines). You will appreciate
the ability to write functions and use loops to simplify the task later.
[3] Input: User input. You may hard code most of the diploma, except the name and the honor
designation, in your program.
[4] Output: Equivalent length in centimeters. Sample output is as follows:
Upon the recommendation of the faculty, the Board of
trustees and the President of the University of
Houston confer upon
Stephen Huang
the degree
Bachelor of Science
summa cum laude
with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereunto.
Display 2
Upon the recommendation of the faculty, the Board of
trustees and the President of the University of
Houston confer upon
Stephen Huang
the degree
Bachelor of Science
with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereunto.
Display 3
[5] Deadline: Feb. 20, 2017