I am a complete beginner to java and have been trying to 'teach myself'sort of thing. A couple of excersises in a book have me a little confused, heres one of them:
Write a program to calculate contributions of an employee. The program should:
prompt for a salary and age, and work out the required contributions from this data.
These two items will be whole numbers, but the contributions calculation may be a floating-point number.
If the employee is aged 50 or over, their taxable income reduces by 10%.
Taxation Rates
The taxation rates and thresholds are the following:
Income/ contributions Calculation
$0 - $6,000 No contributions
$6,001 - $21,600 17% on each $1 over $6000
$21,601 - $52,000 $2,652 plus 30% on each $1 over $21,600
$52,001 - $62,500 $11,772 plus 42% on each $1 over $52,000
$62,501 + $16,182 plus 47% on each $1 over $62,500
Sample Execution
For example, the contributions calculation for an employee with a salary of $54,000 is:
11772 + (2000 * 0.42) = 12612
If this employee was over 50, their taxable income would be $48,600, and the
calculation would then be:
2652 + (27000 * 0.30) = 10752
The program, when run, might look as such:
Enter the employee’s taxable income: 54000
Enter the employee’s age: 52
Their tax payable is $10752.00
If someone could give me the programming language for that just to 'println'(no gui) it would give me a reference to go back to each time.
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Hi tekchic
I am embarrased to say, I have tried and failed so many times I deleted the lot to start again and got soooo frustrated that I gave up (not one of my usual traits)
I promised myself that I would use the example given to me from here (if any) to 'push me along'and get back on the horse so to speak.
You'd be surprised how far you can actually get with "Hello World"... I've had programs I had no idea how to write, and the act of sitting down and even just doing the output statements to the console is something to get you started. You have to jump-start your own brain, and write a little bit of code, and we'll feed you ideas as you go :)
Even writing the pseudocode in comments takes you further. Sit down and analyze the problem. Break every part into the tiniest single step you can. This is how you get from something that looks impossible into a working program. You become a programmer by analyzing the problem, breaking it down into parts, EVEN if you don't know the syntax -- you gotta try and at least write down the pseudocode in comments.
I'm more than happy to help TEACH you, but I don't want to sit here and write out your program for you without any help from you. I do that all day and make money for it myself ;-)
This does look like homework, which would be in violation of your member agreement. That being said, I know what always helped me when learning a new language was to try to think of things in terms of other langauges. I would write C code for assembly programs and then translate them. It's the logic that is the hard part. Fortunately, that is also the part that is portable between langauges. Getting the correct syntax is simple. At least respond with some logic, maybe we can help you there. Would be surprised how easy it is to convert pseudo code into any language you want. Just write it in english, something like this and we'll take it from there.
If criteria1 then
add these numbers
else if criteria2 then
multiply these number
else
do this
I do that too... I can't keep syntax straight to save my life. I figure that's what Google's for. Logic is logic though, once you know *what* you want to do and you ask yourself questions like "What is my very next step to make xyz happen"... then you're on the right track.
This is a great bunch here zorro, we're dying to help ya, just help us help ya! :) None of us can post the answer unless you've put in some work, since as avatar said, it's a violation of MA.
hi there,
hope this helps as a reference...
import java.io.*;
public class Employee
{
private double salary;
Employee(){ }
Employee(double sal)
{
salary=sal;
}
public double tax(double salary)
{
if(salary<=6000){
salary = salary;
}
else if(salary<=21600){
salary = 0.17*(salary - 6000);
}
else if(salary<=52000){
salary = 0.30*(salary - 21600) + 2652;
}
else if(salary<=62500){
salary = 0.42*(salary - 52000) + 11772;
}
else if(salary>=62501){
salary = 0.47*(salary - 62500) + 16182;
}
else{
return -1;
}
return salary;
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
double output = 0;
System.out.println("Enter Employee's Salary Please");
BufferedReader keyin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.i
String cKeyin = keyin.readLine();
double convertKeyin = Double.parseDouble(cKeyin)
System.out.println("Enter Employee's Age Please");
String cAge = keyin.readLine();
double convertAge = Double.parseDouble(cAge);
if(convertAge>50)
{
convertKeyin=convertKeyin-
Employee overfifty = new Employee(convertKeyin);
output = overfifty.tax(convertKeyin
System.out.println(output)
}
else
{
Employee underfifty = new Employee(convertKeyin);
output = underfifty.tax(convertKeyi
System.out.println(output)
}
System.exit(0);
}
}
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by: tekchicPosted on 2004-06-22 at 06:51:00ID: 11369047
Hi zorro2250,
Have you tried anything -- written any code yet? Why don't you post some code so we can guide you through some steps?
.: tekchic :.