Question

There are eligibility requirements for a person to serve as President, Senator and Representative in the US Federal Government. For example, to be a US senator they must be at least 30 years old and have been a US citizen for at least 9 years. To be a US representative these numbers are 25 and 7, respectively. Write pseudocode and a program that requests necessary eligibility information as input and outputs their eligibility for the Presidency, the Senate and the House. Validate that the input is within acceptable norms. E.g. Age must be less than x years old where x is a justifiable number.

Note: There are other requirements in order to be eligible to serve as President, Senator or Representative. Ensure that research is conducted to determine what all the requirements for eligibility are.

For the program:

1. Create pseudocode called eligibilityPseudoCode.txt.
2. Code the program as eligibility.py.
3. Upload your pseudocode (eligibilityPseudoCode.txt) and your program (eligibility.py) to D2L.

Can anybody help me with this in terms of psuedocode and python programming?

Note: The version of Python that I use is Python 3.7

Answer 1

def congress( person_age, years_of_citizenship ):
   eligible_for_us_senator = False;
   eligible_for_us_representative = False;
  
   if( person_age >= 25 and years_of_citizenship >= 7):
       eligible_for_us_representative = True;
   if( person_age >= 30 and years_of_citizenship >= 9):
       eligible_for_us_senator = True;

   if( eligible_for_us_senator and eligible_for_us_representative ):
       return "Eligible for the Senate and the House";
   elif( eligible_for_us_representative ):
       return "Eligible only for the House";
   else:
       #if not eligible_for_us_representative, then also not eligible_for_us_senator
       return "Not eligible for Congress";