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NewProgrammer 10

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Posted: 28th Sep 2011 00:30

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Hellow Im new to programming and we were given a simple assignment in class which was to construct source code that calculates the total number of differnt coins in a jar. There a 3 quarters, 5 nickels, 12 pennies, and 0 dimes. I am completely stuck but this is what I have so far. We are using DarkGDK in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

//include directive
#include "DarkGDK.h"

//DarkGDK function
void DarkGDK(){

int Quarters, Nickels, Pennies, Dimes, Total;

Quarters = .25;

dbPrint("How many Quarters?:");

Quarters = atoi(dbInput());

Total = Quarters * 3;

dbPrint("The Total is:");

dbPrint(dbStr(Total));

//waint for the user to press a key
dbWaitKey();
}

Can anyone help me out?

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Mr Bigglesworth

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Posted: 28th Sep 2011 01:55 Edited at: 28th Sep 2011 01:57

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Quote: "Quarters = .25;"

You declared the varible "Quarters" as an int, for it to have a decimal in it it must be declared as a float.

Your code should look like this:

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//include directive
#include "DarkGDK.h"

//DarkGDK function
void DarkGDK(){

float Quarters, Nickels, Pennies, Dimes, Total;

Quarters = .25;

dbPrint("How many Quarters?:");

Quarters = atoi(dbInput());

Total = Quarters * 3;

dbPrint("The Total is:");

dbPrint(dbStr(Total));


//waint for the user to press a key
dbWaitKey();
}

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