Turbo pascal homework

[Paramaribo]

Hi,

I don't want anyone to do my assignment for me, I just want some help.

I'm a student in Suriname, formerly Dutch-Guiana. My teacher decided that we should learn how to write basic programs in Turbo Pascal to improve our "problemsolving skills" and for so far things have gone swimmingly. today i received an assignment:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v734/surgirl/Untitled-Scanned-01.jpg[/IMG]

I can do the first part (having the program read in all the info), I just don't know how to create a table (figure 1 and 2) or the "certificate". I've never seen that before. I've tried to look it up in some books in our library, but I've found nothing because I have no idea what I'm looking for. so can anyone just give me a word that I can look up, i don't want you to write my program, I just want a word (I'm that desperate for help :o ).
Thank you for reading this!

[Siersan]

How you print the table depends on how you set up your table of records. If it's actually an array of records then you're looking at a loop like this:

writeln('Summary of Student Course Scores:')
writeln('ID  NAME  CLASSICAL  REGGAE  ROCK  TOTAL  AVERAGE');
for i := 1 to N do
  writeln(s[i].id, s[i].name, s[i].classical, s[i].rock, s[i].total, s[i].average);

I'll let you work out the formatting issues as that tends to be more trial and error than anything.

I would imagine that the certificate itself is something simple along these lines:

writeln('*GOLD*\nCERTIFICATE OF OUTSTANDING\nACHIEVEMENT');
writeln('\n\n', highest.name, '\n\nIn Music Studies\n');

Once again, the formatting itself so that everything is centered I will leave to you.

[Paramaribo]

Thanks, your advice was really helpfull. I have on last question, if you don't mind.

Here's the last part of my program:

highestavegrade := avegradestudent[1];
FOR i:=2 TO 10 DO
BEGIN
IF avegradestudent >= highestavegrade
THEN highestavegrade := avegradestudent;
END;
FOR i:=1 TO 10 DO
BEGIN
IF avegradestudent >= highestavegrade
THEN writeln (*GOLD*, etc, etc

When I run the program all the names of the students appear, instead of the one with the highest average (Jack Bean). What am I doing wrong?

[Jackrabbit]

highestavegrade := 0;

for i:=1 to 10 do
begin
   if avegradestudent[i] > highestavegrade then
   begin
      highestavegrade := avegradestudent[i];
   end;
end;

for i:=1 to 10 do
begin
   if avegradestudent[i] = highestavegrade then
   begin
 { writeln (*GOLD*, etc, etc }
   end;
end;