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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1) PAPER 1: Principles of Computer Science QP MAY 2024
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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1)
Wednesday 15 May 2024
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reference 1CP2/01 ■ ■
Computer Science
PAPER 1: Principles of Computer Science
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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1) PAPER 1: Principles of Computer Science QP MAY
2024
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1 Computational thinking
(a) Identify the term that means breaking a problem or solution down into smaller
parts.
(1)
A Abstraction
B Computation
C Decomposition
D Evaluation
(b) State two benefits of subprograms.
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, (c) Here is an algorithm that uses colours.
1 #
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2 # Global variables
3 #
4 theColours = ["Green", "Blue", "Yellow", "Red", "Purple"]
5 colour = ""
6
7 #
8 # Main program
9 #
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11 for item in theColours:
12 print (item)
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14 colour = input ("Enter a colour: ")
15 while (colour != ""):
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16 if (colour == "Green"):
17 print ("Green is my favourite colour")
18 else:
19 print (colour + " is a good colour")
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21 colour = input ("Enter a colour: ")
(i) Give the first line number of a condition-controlled loop.
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