Review
We started out by extending our pumpkin weighing program to tell us the highest two weights rather than just the highest one. During this exercise, we learned the use of the else clause of an if statement. We also saw that making even an apparently simple change to a working program can introduce an error; in this case we were copying the highest weight to the next highest weight only when a new high weight was detected. This would produce an incorrect result if a value higher than the previous second highest but lower than the current highest weight were entered.
Next we extended the program again, this time to handle any number of prizes to be given to the highest weight, second-highest weight, third-highest weights, and so on. This ...
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