Programming: Solution Design

1) Create a defining diagram that shows the input, processing, and output

2) Create a solution algorithm using pseudocode

3) Show testing using the desk checking table method, to include test data, expected results, and a desk checking table. Make sure your desk checking considers multiple cases including both valid and invalid test data to prove your algorithm will work in all cases

- Based on your problem-solving expertise, you have been hired to work in the departments main office, helping direct students who need advising help. One of your first tasks is to help the advisors by creating an application that can tell the advisor if a student who is not yet in the IT major if the student is eligible to declare the IT major. Some students who declare the IT major will be eligible to apply for a declaration scholarship.

- A maximum of 52 new students will be allowed to declare the IT major, based on their cumulative GPA and whether or not the student has passed IT 106 with a grade of C or higher. Any student who has not completed IT 106 with a grade of C or higher or has not obtained a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 may not declare the IT major.

- Students who do meet these criteria will be allowed to declare the IT major.

- For students who are eligible to declare, students that have achieved a cumulative GPA of at least 3.8 will earn a $4,920 scholarship award.

- Students that have achieved a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5, but less than 3.8 will earn a $550 scholarship award. Any cumulative GPAs less than 3.5 will not be eligible for a scholarship award.