Code Challenge 3.3 - Letter Grade

Objective

Create a program that evaluates student scores and assigns letter grades according to the following grade curve rules:

• Letter grade is A if the score is within 10 points of the highest score. i.e. score >= best_score - 10
• Letter grade is B if the score is within 20 points of the highest score. i.e. score >= best_score - 20
• Letter grade is C if the score is within 30 points of the highest score. i.e. score >= best_score - 30
• Letter grade is D if the score is within 40 points of the highest score. i.e. score >= best_score - 40
• Letter grade is F otherwise.

Skills to Practice

• Assigning elements to a collection
• Traversing a collection
• Finding the max value in a collection

Challenge Tasks

• Create a console project named Challenge 3-2.
• Prompt the user to input the total number of students.
• Prompt the user to input a score for each student.
• Find the highest score among the students.
• Display the letter grades for each students based on the grade curve rules above.

Sample Output

1
Enter the number of students: 4
2
Enter score for student 1: 78 [Enter]
3
Enter score for student 2: 85 [Enter]
4
Enter score for student 3: 92 [Enter]
5
Enter score for student 4: 67 [Enter]
6

7
Student 1 score is 78 and grade is B
8
Student 2 score is 85 and grade is A
9
Student 3 score is 92 and grade is A
10
Student 4 score is 67 and grade is C