Help with this programming question

sashafierce

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ntlbell

have you spotted any errors? having problems understanding something you want to be explained?

it will help if you ask more specific questions.

amen

well,

I wouldn't ask the user to enter the interest rate but rather enter A,B,C or W (with may the % in brackets after each letter).

I'm not a Java person but I don;t think you are catering for upper/lower case letters, there are no comments per the spec you posted,

the code below is repeated twice. no need to do that
I would also move the calculation

System.out.print("Amount to be invested > ");
money = scan.nextInt();
System.out.print("Term for money to be deposited > ");
term = scan.nextInt();
System.out.print("Is Interest Rate 0.5, 1.3, 3.0 or 4.5? ");
interest = scan.nextFloat();

total = money + (money*interest*term);
System.out.print(total);
System.out.println();
break;

sashafierce

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stevenmu

It's important to pay attention to the little details. In your program you're checking if it's a current or savings account, but that's not mentioned in the question, only types A,B,C and W. Ideally you should try to forget everything you know about everything in the real world and only use what is in the question (except that whoever set the question never bothered to include how to calculate interest).

You also need to look at why you have a second set of while(true) loops, and consider if you really need them for anything.

Remember to write the problem out in pseudo-code first, start very simply and then expand it out more. For e.g. start with:

Loop until X is entered
   Read in values
   Calculate interest
   Print interest
Loop

then expand it to:

Loop until X is entered
   Read in account type
   Read in amount deposited
   Read in number of years
   Calculate interest
   Print interest
Loop

and then keep expanding and expanding each part until you have it down to it's most basic, then it's easy to put each line into code. Also keep referring back to the question to make sure the steps you have match what is in the question.

AARRRGH

sashafierce wrote: »

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Why don't you tell us what error you're getting? It would save us all a lot of hassle.