Thread: Hint for an old dude

I am an "old dude" who became frustrated with my current career and decided to go back to school to make a career change. I am in my second semester and in a C++ programming class. My question involves an assignment that has already been turned in for grading, and is not required as part of my assignment, but I am curious.

My code needs some work, but where I am curious is the end. How do I get the program to repeat after the system pause? I read about loops and whiles, but maybe I am missing something. After pressing "any key", my program terminates, but how would I get it to re-start from the beginning?

BTW, I used the "code tags", but apparently I used them wrong because it does not have the correct indentation. Please recall that I am an old dude trying to learn all of this stuff. I will eventually get. Please bear with me.

Code:

//Travis Bryant
//CPT-168-A01
//Calculate the Gross Pay Program
#include
<iostream>
using
namespace std;
int
 main()
{
	system(
"color f0");
	cout<<
"\t\t\t***********************************"<<endl;
	cout<<
"\t\t\t*          Travis Bryant          *"<<endl;
	cout<<
"\t\t\t*           CPT-168-A01           *"<<endl;
	cout<<
"\t\t\t*     Calculate the Gross Pay     *"<<endl;
	cout<<
"\t\t\t***********************************"<<endl;
	
double hrswrkd = 0.0, hrlyrat = 0.0, yrswrkd = 0.0,notpay = 0.0, otpay = 0.0, bnspay = 0.0, pay1 = 0.0, totpay = 0.0; 
	cout<<
"Please Enter Hours Worked: ";
	cin>>hrswrkd;
	cout<<
"Please Enter Hourly Pay Rate: ";
	cin>>hrlyrat;
	
if (hrswrkd > 40)
		notpay = hrlyrat * 40, otpay = (hrswrkd - 40) * 1.5 * hrlyrat, pay1 = otpay + notpay;
	
else
		pay1 = hrswrkd * hrlyrat;
	cout<<
"Gross Pay: $"<<pay1<<endl<<endl;
	cout<<
"Please Enter Years of Service ";
	cin>>yrswrkd;
	
if (yrswrkd >= 1 && yrswrkd <= 5)
		bnspay = pay1 * .05;
	
else
		
if (yrswrkd >= 6 && yrswrkd <= 9)
			bnspay = pay1 * .10;
		
else
			
if (yrswrkd == 10)
				bnspay = pay1 * .15;
			
else
				
if (yrswrkd > 10)
					bnspay = pay1 * .20;
				
//endif
			
//endif
		
//endif
	
//endif
	cout<<
"Employee Longevity Bonus: $"<<bnspay<<endl<<endl;
	totpay = pay1 + bnspay;
	cout<<
"Total Employee Pay: $"<<totpay<<endl<<endl;
	cout<<
"THANK YOU!!!"<<endl<<endl;
	system(
"pause");
	
return 0;
}
　
　

You may want to study up on the various loop constructs like do/while, while, and for(;.

As far as your problems with posting, be sure to as post plain text.

Jim

My code needs some work, but where I am curious is the end. How do I get the program to repeat after the system pause? I read about loops and whiles, but maybe I am missing something. After pressing "any key", my program terminates, but how would I get it to re-start from the beginning?

Programs that are capable of doing that are structured to make that work.

You said you read about loops. Repeating an entire program is just another loop.

Code:

while not ready to quit:
  calculate the gross pay
  find out if they are ready to quit
end while
quit

You must plan out the flow of the program as much as the individual instructions, until you get to such a point that you are comfortable writing it in language xyz.

Originally Posted by whiteflags

Programs that are capable of doing that are structured to make that work.

You said you read about loops. Repeating an entire program is just another loop.

Code:

while not ready to quit:
  calculate the gross pay
  find out if they are ready to quit
end while
quit

You must plan out the flow of the program as much as the individual instructions, until you get to such a point that you are comfortable writing it in language xyz.

Ok, thank you both for your replies. Whiteflags, that is probably why he hasn't taught it to us yet (not that I recall anyway), but it just bugs me that it terminates every time.