Needing help with a c++ program I'm writing

[woodkm]

Here is the question....
Write a base class Worker and derived classes HourlyWorker and SalariedWorker. Every worker has a name and a salary rate. Write a virtual function ComputePay (in hour) that computes weekly pay for every worker. An hourly worker gets paid the hourly wages for the actual number of hours worked. The hours are at most 40 per week. If it is greater than 40, the worker gets 1.5 times of the hourly rate for excess hour. Te salaried worker gets paid the hourly wage for 40 hours, no matter what the actual number of hours is .

And here is the little code I have so far. The int main() was given to me, and I need to write the base worker class and the two derived classes. But I am lost. Thanks for any help!

 
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class Worker
{
     public:

    {
           virtual compute_Pay(float hours);} //this doesn't like to compile correctly
                                                                  //hourly and salaried functions
    }
}
class hourly: public Worker
{

           compute_Pay; //need to add the computer_Pay in here, salaried, and worker.
                                 //and functions that calculate hourly guys with/without overtime
}

class Salaried: public Worker
{
          compute_Pay=; //also need to add functions that calculate just salaried guys
};





int main()
{
          HourlyWorker a("Sam", 20);
          HourlyWorker b("Mary", 15);
          SalariedWorker c("Tom", 30);
          SalariedWorker d("Pat", 40);

                     cout << "Hourly worker " << a.get_name() << " earns $" << a.get_salary();
                     cout << " and worked 20 hours for a pay of $" << a.compute_pay(20) << "\n";
                     cout << "Hourly worker " << b.get_name() << " earns $" << b.get_salary();
                     cout << " and worked 50 hours for a pay of $" << b.compute_pay(50) << "\n";
                     cout << "Salaried worker " << c.get_name() << " earns $" << c.get_salary();
                     cout << " and worked 20 hours for a pay of $" << c.compute_pay(20) << "\n";
                     cout << "Salaried worker " << d.get_name() << " earns $" << d.get_salary();
                     cout << " and worked 50 hours for a pay of $" << d.compute_pay(50) << "\n";

                     system("pause");
                    return 0;
}

[swgh]

virtual compute_Pay(float hours);}

You have a closing brace with no opening once, hence the error in the syntax.

[matsp]

virtual compute_Pay(float hours);}

You have a closing brace with no opening once, hence the error in the syntax.

And no return type, which is not valid in C++.

--
Mats

[Elysia]

 
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class Worker
{
     public:
    {
           virtual compute_Pay(float hours);} //this doesn't like to compile correctly
                                                                  //hourly and salaried functions
    }
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class hourly: public Worker
{

           compute_Pay; //need to add the computer_Pay in here, salaried, and worker.
                                 //and functions that calculate hourly guys with/without overtime
}

class Salaried: public Worker
{
          compute_Pay=; //also need to add functions that calculate just salaried guys
};





int main()
{
          HourlyWorker a("Sam", 20);
          HourlyWorker b("Mary", 15);
          SalariedWorker c("Tom", 30);
          SalariedWorker d("Pat", 40);

                     cout << "Hourly worker " << a.get_name() << " earns $" << a.get_salary();
                     cout << " and worked 20 hours for a pay of $" << a.compute_pay(20) << "\n";
                     cout << "Hourly worker " << b.get_name() << " earns $" << b.get_salary();
                     cout << " and worked 50 hours for a pay of $" << b.compute_pay(50) << "\n";
                     cout << "Salaried worker " << c.get_name() << " earns $" << c.get_salary();
                     cout << " and worked 20 hours for a pay of $" << c.compute_pay(20) << "\n";
                     cout << "Salaried worker " << d.get_name() << " earns $" << d.get_salary();
                     cout << " and worked 50 hours for a pay of $" << d.compute_pay(50) << "\n";

                     system("pause");
                    return 0;
}

You also seem to have a local scope inside a class... not sure if it is legal or not, but it still makes no sense.
And then you have declared the function inside hourly... But it isn't a function, but rather just a name - an identifier, lacking any sort of type. What is it supposed to be? Think on that one, you.
And in third class, you have done the gravest sin of all... You are trying to assign to what is supposed to be a function, and which yet isn't, because it lacks everything that marks it as one.

Do you have your books handy? It looks like need to get back to one.

[execute]

Yeah take off the braces around Public:

Take off that brace at the end with the semicolon where you said it doesn't compile right.

Add a constructor :
public:
Worker();
virtual int ComputePay();

in your other classes, override:

class name {
 public:
int ComputePay();
}

[Elysia]

I find it good practice to add "virtual" to all functions that virtual, in the base class and the derived classes.