At the Fair
Now we're ready to write a program that vaguely resembles a solution to a real problem. We'll start with a simple, rural type of programming problem.
Imagine that you are at a county fair. The contst for the heaviest pumpkin is about to get underway, and the judges have asked for your help in operating the "pumpkin scoreboard". This device has a slot for the current pumpkin weight (the CurrentWeight slot), and another slot for the highest weight so far (the HighestWeight slot); each slot can hold three digits from 0–9 and therefore can indicate any weight from 0–999. The judges want you to maintain an up-to-date display of the current weight and of the highest weight seen so far. The weights are expressed to the nearest pound. How ...
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