Question

Prompt the user for a guess. This does NOT need to be type-safe (but it can be!). Tell the user if their guess is too high, too low, or correct. If they are correct, the program should tell them how many guesses they took and then end.If the guess is too high or too low, it should prompt the user for a new guess (go back to step 2).Your application should not tell the user how far they were off by. This application can be completed using material from Chapter 6 (Loops and Strings) and earlier (Chapter 7 has a review on generating random numbers).

Answer 1

The user is tasked to create a basic number-guessing game which involves loops for iteration and conditionals for evaluating the user's input in a high school-level computer science course.

Step-by-step explanation:

The number-guessing program that could be assigned in a high school-level computer science course. In the program, the user is asked to guess a number provided dynamically, without knowing the exact value they need to guess. Users input their guess, and the program tells them whether their guess is too high, too low, or correct. If the guess is incorrect, it prompts the user to guess again.

When the correct number is guessed, the program congratulates the user and mentions the number of attempts taken. This demonstrates foundational programming concepts like loops for iteration, conditionals for decision-making, user input for interactivity, and potentially a bit of random number generation for creating the number to be guessed. The task emphasizes the importance of practice in forming a good intuition for numerical answers and how ranges serve as helpful guides without giving away the answer outright.