omfg... well, i may need help just understanding this problem...

Well, i have this problem on one homework assignment. I don't need help on the code as I'm breaking it down step by step, BUT, i'm just wondering if I'm overlooking this problem.

here it is, btw, this is C++

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A company pays its employees as managers (who receive a fixed weekly salary), hourly workers (who receive a fixed hourly wage for up to the first 40 hours they work and "time-and-a-half"--1.5 times their hourly wage - for overtime hours worked), commisioned workers (who receive $250 plus 5.7% of their gross weekly sales), or pieceworkers ( who receive a fixed amount of money per item for each of the items they produce--each pieceworker in this company works on only one type of item).

Write a program to compute the weekly pay for each employee. You do not know the number of employees in advance. Each type of employee has its own pay code:

Managers have paycode 1, hourly workers have 2, commission workers have 3 and pieceworkers have code 4.

Use a switch to compute each employee's pay according to that employee's paycode. Within the switch prompt the user (i.e., the payroll clerk) to enter the appropriate facts your program needs to calculate each employee's pay according to that employee's paycode.
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Well basically i broke it down in bits. I created if statements for the Hourly worker to display his pay regardless if he worked overtime or not. I coded the commisione worker. Salary = Whatever, and so on.

Then I see the finalized line.

How do I call the code within the switch function? WTF! Isn't the switch function a way to do things if you don't want to use the if/else statements? Do I just paste my code within a case then break? Or am I just overlooking something here because this prick wants too much from a n00b?

I can post my code if need be.

[palin]

switch(paycode){
   case 1: //calculate pay
           break;
   case 2: //calculate pay
           break;
   default: std::cout << "you entered an                  in correct pay type";
           break;

}

The switch will execute any code between the case 1: and the break; statements.


This may have changed but yeah it used to be implemented as a series of if/else statements. Java does it as a jump table but they may have changed the way the compilier works. in any case its a cleaner neater looking way of doing instead of if else statements.

thanks man... works great.
just in case anyone needs this or i made a mistake in my math.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	string name = " ";
	int total = 0;
	int paycode = 0;
	double salary = 0.0;
	double payRate = 0.0;
	double hourlyRate = 0.0;
	double commissionRate = 0.0;
	double fixedRate = 0.0;
	int hoursWorked = 0.0;
	double itemsProduced = 0.0;
	double overtime = 0.0;
	double sales = 0.0;

	
	cout << "Employee Name: ";
	cin >> name;
	cout << "\nSelect an Employee Status/Paycode for this employee:\n \n 1.Manager \n 2.Hourly Worker \n 3.Commisioned Worker \n 4.Piece Worker? \n \n(Enter 1, 2, 3, or 4 where applicable): ";
	cin >> paycode;


	switch (paycode) 
	{
	case 1:	cout << "What is the weekly salary for this employee?: ";
			cin >> salary;
			cout << " " << name << " has made $ " << salary << " this week." << endl;
			break;
	
	case 2:	cout << "Hourly rate for this employee: " << endl;
			cin >> payRate;
			cout << "Hours worked this week: " << endl;
			cin >> hoursWorked;
			if (hoursWorked > 40)
			{
				total = (40*payRate);
				overtime = total + ((hoursWorked % 10) * (payRate + (payRate / 2)));
				cout << " " << name << " has made a total of $ " << overtime << " for the week." << endl;
			}
			else
			{
				total = payRate * hoursWorked;
				cout << " " << name << " has made a total of $ " << total << " for the week." << endl;
			}
			break;
			
	case 3:	cout << "Enter the number of sales: ";
			cin >> sales;
			cout << "Enter your salary: ";
			cin >> salary;

			commissionRate = 250 + (sales / 7.5);
			total = commissionRate + salary;
			cout << " " << name << " has made $ " << total << " this week." << endl;
			break;

	case 4:	cout << "Enter the number of items produced this week: ";
			cin >> itemsProduced;
			cout << "Enter the cost per item: ";
			cin >> payRate;
			total = itemsProduced * payRate;
			cout << " " << name << " has made $ " << total << " for the week." << endl;
			break;

	default:  cout << "Error" << endl;
	} //end of switch
	
	return 0;
}

[ender]

I only have one problem with your code. Why are you taking the hoursWorked % 10 for hourly people who work overtime? For an 80 hour week (God forbid) one would only be paid for 40 hours. 80 % 10 = 0; Should this not be:

... (hoursWorked - 40) * ...

Just wondering,
- Ted