Intro to Python for Computer Science and Data Science: Learning to Program with AI, Big Data and The Cloud

3.12 Program Development: Nested Control Statements

Let’s work through another complete problem. Once again, we plan the algorithm using pseudocode and top-down, stepwise refinement and we develop a corresponding Python script. Consider the following requirements statement:

• A college offers a course that prepares students for the state licensing exam for real-estate brokers. Last year, several of the students who completed this course took the licensing examination. The college wants to know how well its students did on the exam. You have been asked to write a program to summarize the results. You have been given a list of these 10 students. Next to each name is written a 1 if the student passed the exam and a 2 if the student failed.

  Your ...