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Absolute and relative file paths
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Mira writes a program on her own laptop that opens its data file with this path:
/Users/mira/Desktop/cs-project/marks.csv
The program works on her laptop. When her teacher copies the whole cs-project folder to a school computer and runs it from inside that folder, the program says the file cannot be found.
(a) Distinguish between an absolute path and a relative path. [2]
(b) Explain why the program fails on the school computer, and how a relative path would fix it. [2]
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