I admit it, I'm completely clueless. I'm about to give up.

Question

Input names of students from the user, terminated by ZZZ, and

create a data file GRADES with records of the form:

student (string), test1 (integer), test2 (integer), test3 (integer)

In this file, all test scores should be set equal to 0.

use the top-down modular approach and pseudocode

Answer 1

Just describe the process in a top-down way:

main {

names = getnames()

writedatafile( names )

}

getnames {

loop {

name = getstring()

if name == "ZZZ" return names

names = names + name

}

}

Answer 2

name = ''

while (name != "ZZZ")

get name from user

if (name != "ZZZ") write output (name,0,0,0)

end while