Newbie help for a class

[unclepickle1]

Hey all,

I've just started a C programming class and need some help with an assignment. Here is the problem...

If your taxable income is between:

0 and 8500 your tax bracket is 10%
8500 and 34500 your tax bracket is 15%
34500 and 83600 your tax bracket is 25%

Let the user input, yearly gross income and you write a program to compute the federal tax amount.


All I need to know is how to write an If statement to include a range of numbers, so I don't have to write 83600 if statements. For some reason I can't seem to find this in the book.

Thanks

[laserlight]

All I need to know is how to write an If statement to include a range of numbers, so I don't have to write 83600 if statements.

Make use of the < operator (or <=, etc) in the condition of your if statements.

[camel-man]

ex. if(taxVariable<8500)

[CommonTater]

ex. if(taxVariable<8500)

if (income < 8500.00)
 { tax = .10; }
else if (income < 34500.00)
 { tax = .15; }
else if(income < 83600.00)
 { tax = .25; }
else
  { printf("You are one lucky S.O.B.... not only do you get a ton of money, you just got off tax free!");
     tax = 0.0 }

[laserlight]

CommonTater's example is what I had in mind, though I might write it as:

if (income < 8500.00)
{
    tax = 0.10;
}
else if (income < 34500.00)
{
    tax = 0.15;
}
else if (income < 83600.00)
{
    tax = 0.25;
}
else
{
    printf("You are one lucky S.O.B.... not only do you get a ton of money, you just got off tax free!");
    tax = 0.0;
}

[CommonTater]

Moving the little curly things around doesn't make it any funnier, Lase....

And it's still missing the semicolon after tax = 0.0 ....

[laserlight]

Moving the little curly things around doesn't make it any funnier, Lase....

Not meant to be funny. unclepickle1, note that CommonTater's indent style is unusual. I do not recommend that you follow it.

And it's still missing the semicolon after tax = 0.0 ....

That is true. Your mistake.

[CommonTater]

Not meant to be funny. unclepickle1, note that CommonTater's indent style is unusual. I do not recommend that you follow it.
That is true. Your mistake.

Indeed... twice.

However... your "fix" would have been far more credible if you'd actually fixed the code

EDIT: Tell you what... get 150,000 statements in a file your way and the same code formatted my way... wanna guess who wears out a mouse wheel quicker? I use that style because it's very compact and very easy for me to read. No, I don't recommend it to others... but, lets settle this... "Unusual" is not "wrong".

[laserlight]

However... your "fix" would have been far more credible if you'd actually fixed the code

I did not even intend to post any code until unclepickle1 made an attempt, but since you decided to do unclepickle1's homework with an unconventional style, I decided to post your code with a more common style.

get 150,000 statements in a file your way and the same code formatted my way... wanna guess who wears out a mouse wheel quicker?

The same, since all those 150,000 statements are assignment statements... wait, why do you have 150,000 statements in a file to begin with?

Even if you really did find the rate of "wearing out a mouse wheel" to be important, another common indent style does not fare that much worse than yours here:

if (income < 8500.00) {
    tax = .10;
} else if (income < 34500.00) {
    tax = .15;
} else if(income < 83600.00) {
    tax = .25;
} else {
    printf("You are one lucky S.O.B.... not only do you get a ton of money, you just got off tax free!");
    tax = 0.0;
}

"Unusual" is not "wrong"

Of course.

[CommonTater]

I did not even intend to post any code until unclepickle1 made an attempt, but since you decided to do unclepickle1's homework with an unconventional style, I decided to post your code with a more common style.

Yeah, no problem, just playing with you a little...

The same, since all those 150,000 statements are assignment statements... wait, why do you have 150,000 statements in a file to begin with?

Trust me... you don't want to know... (Hint: The number could be classified as "exaggeration to make a point")

Even if you really did find the rate of "wearing out a mouse wheel" to be important, another common indent style does not fare that much worse than yours here:

if (income < 8500.00) {
    tax = .10;
} else if (income < 34500.00) {
    tax = .15;
} else if(income < 83600.00) {
    tax = .25;
} else {
    printf("You are one lucky S.O.B.... not only do you get a ton of money, you just got off tax free!");
    tax = 0.0;
}

See... I look at that and all the braces just vanish on me... As I've explained before I'm so used to my offbeat style that I find the conventional formatting is actually hard to read... "Old habits" and all that. (Take a look at some old time Turbo Basic programs, you'll see what I mean)