CSC 208 PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON AND C Exam 2025

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CSC 208: End-of-Semester Examination, Thursday 19/06/2025, University of Buea, Faculty of Science, Dept of Computer Science: Section A, Questions 1 and 2 word-for-word identical to Paper 10's (cross-referenced for their answers, reprinted here since this paper is not itself a duplicate), plus 3 new items -- a Swap(num1,num2) pointer-based real-number-swap fill-in-the-code exercise, C declaration items (including a positive-integer pair and a character-pointer declaration), and a complete Student-struct marksheet.dat file-writing C program; Section B, a new 10-item Python MCQ Part I (one item, on variable types including a Python list, flagged as having no fully-correct option among the four given -- the closest/intended answer selected and the flaw noted) and a new Part II (a nested-conditional mystery() function trace, 3 boolean-expression-writing items, a for-to-while loop-conversion exercise, 3 numeric-expression-writing items, and a 5-part iteration/count trace through a 12-character string, fully worked by hand).