repetition and selection- can anyone help?

Hey all,

I'm having a bit of trouble (ie. tearing my hair out in frustration) with repetition and selection.

I have to design a program that allows the user to input the amount of money invested into a savings account, the annual percent interest earned, and the length (in years) of the investment, and then calls a function to calculate and display a table of the monthly balances for the account that compounds interest quarterly (ie every three months).

My main problems are, I can't figure out how to display years as months in a table. Eg. if the user entered 0.5 years, how would I get that to display in the table as

-------
length
-------
1
2
3
4
5
6

???

The other problem is that I have no idea how to make it calculate interest on the months it should- ie how do I get it to calculate the interest on the 3rd month, the 6th month, but not the others?

Any help would be infinitely appreciated!

Tarls.

float lengthInterest = 0.5 * 12;


if (monthNumber % 3)
{
doInterest();
}

Some math help:

remember when you do calc the interest it needs to be divided by the quarters

9% annual interest paid in quarters is:

.09 /4 = .0225 each quarter. // The math always gets me

*remember to add a 1 to your result, so it would be 1.0225 times your money amount.*