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var name : string
var numemployee : int := 0
var hourlywage : real
var hours : real
var overtime : real := 0
var regpay : real
var overpay : real
var totpay : real
var totreghours : real := 0
var totregpay : real := 0
var totovertime : real := 0
var totoverpay : real := 0
var totalhours : real := 0
var grandtot : real := 0

put "How many employees? " ..
get numemployee

cls

for i : 1 .. numemployee
put "What is the employee's name? " ..
get name : *

put "What is ", name, "'s hourly wage? $" ..
get hourlywage

put "How many hours did ", name, " work? " ..
get hours

if hours > 40 then
overtime := hours - 40
hours := hours - overtime
end if

regpay := hourlywage * hours
overpay := (overtime * hourlywage) + (overtime * (hourlywage / 2))
totpay := regpay + overpay
totreghours := totreghours + hours
totregpay := totregpay + regpay
totovertime := totovertime + overtime
totoverpay := totoverpay + overpay
totalhours := totalhours + totreghours + totovertime
grandtot := grandtot + totoverpay + totregpay
put ""
put name, " worked ", overtime, " overtime hours and earned $", totpay : 2 : 2

delay (2500)
cls

regpay := 0
overpay := 0
totpay := 0

end for

put "SUMMARY:"
put "Number of Employees: ", numemployee
put ""
put "Regular hours worked: ", totreghours
put "Regular earnings paid: $", totregpay : 2 : 2
put ""
put "Overtime hours worked: ", totovertime
put "Overtime earnings paid: $", totoverpay : 2 : 2
put ""
put "Total hours worked: ", totalhours
put "Total earnings paid: $", grandtot : 2 : 2

Author:	shorthair [ Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:37 pm ]
Post subject:
When i did my payroll system i made a record of the main waraiables like the name and employee number and sin # you have to store these values in a " Binary file" that can be read written , modded , seeked and told , thats how you do this program propery ,save the values for later use this method is very easy once you learn how ot make a record , Your calculations are wrong becuase you are breaking the 3 rule of programming SEQUENCE , if you trace your program you will see that your variables are changing and when they do , your calculations go off you need to make sure you do your calculations in the correct order

Author:	AsianSensation [ Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:45 pm ]
Post subject:
shorthair wrote: you need to make a record of the main waraiables like the name ans stuff not really, structures are just ways of organizing a person's code. It's perfectly fine to not use structures and still be able to do a good program. I know forgot to use structures for my FP last year. It basicly depends on how well you can keep track of stuff yourself. If you are really good, then you can just declare every single variable as one big array. But then again, that requires a great amount of mental discipline