New to C

Hi guys

Ive stumbled across a question which has got me stumped. Im very new to algorithms and C syntax so im not to sure how to approach this question:

"You are asked to write a simple program that will accept an integer value in the
range of 5-95 and in increments of 5 at a time, representing the number of cents to
give to a customer in their change. The program should calculate how many coins
of each denomination and display this to the user. Valid coin values are 50, 20, 10
and 5. Your solution (program and algorithm) should be modular in nature. This
requires the submission of a high-level algorithm and suitable decompositions of
each step."

Im not sure whether or not to use looping or if else statements. I also dont know enough to figure out how to code these 5 increments then display how many coins are needed for the change.

Any hints on how to tackle this one would help me heaps.

ive been stuck on it for 10 hours.

Cheers

Originally Posted by kermi3

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It appears that you are posting a homework assignment or other project.

Please don't ask people to do all your work for you, See the announcement on Homework at the top of all forums to see what is acceptable or PM me. Basically people are happy to help, but they're not going to do it all for you.

Show us what you've got, show your code (using code tags), or where you're confused and someone will be happy to help you I'm sure. If it's something that you absolutely don't understand how it works, like you have no clue how qsort works, then ask a general question about the function and I'm sure someone will explain it. Though they may not give you all of the code for it, but someone will explain the concept.


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Good Luck,

Kermi3

Read and follow the above instructions, and try your post (in the same thread) again.

Quzah.

Bump for the search, heres a relevant link that may help you start off:
Help with small simple program

Think before you code especially on problems you are unfamiliar with. Also if you are new to C then I would recommend spending some time looking over C syntax and features before diving into problems.