graduation

Category: Programming

Author: Marty Stepp and Helene Martin

Book Chapter: 4.2

Problem: graduation

Write a static method named graduation that takes a student's GPA, total credit count, and honors credit count as parameters, and returns a String representing that student's graduation status. The total credit count already includes the honors credits. The graduation status to return is determined by the following rules:
     Students must have completed at least 180 credits with a GPA of at least 2.0 to graduate. A student who does not meet both of these constraints should receive a return value of "not graduating".
     Students who do have enough credits to graduate and sufficiently high GPAs will receive one of four return values depending on the GPA and number of honors credits:
         All students with GPAs between 2.0 and 3.6 receive a return value of "graduating".
         Students with fewer than 15 honors credits receive a return of "cum laude" if their GPA is at least 3.6 but less than 3.8, and a return of "magna cum laude" if their GPA is at least 3.8.
         Students with 15 or more honors credits receive a return of "magna cum laude" if their GPA is at least 3.6 but less than 3.8, and a return of "summa cum laude" if their GPA is at least 3.8.

Here are some example calls to the method and their resulting return values:

Call                      | Value Returned
graduation(3.87, 178, 16) | "not graduating"
graduation(1.5, 199, 30)  | "not graduating"
graduation(2.7, 380, 50)  | "graduating"
graduation(3.6, 180, 14)  | "cum laude"
graduation(3.62, 200, 20) | "magna cum laude"
graduation(3.93, 185, 0)  | "magna cum laude"
graduation(3.85, 190, 15) | "summa cum laude"

You may assume that the GPA will be between 0.0 and 4.0 and that both credit counts will be non-negative integers.