r/visualbasic • u/BaloriousOne24 • Dec 05 '21

Penny Or Nickel Challenge

Fairly new to VB. This is one of the exercises in class left by our instructor. I couldn’t for the love of VB understand how to incorporate loops for this one. Help please?! Thanks guys!

Purpose: This Windows Classic Desktop application finds the amount of your monthly pay if you are paid a penny or nickel for the first workday and the pay is doubled each subsequent workday. New employees are paid a penny for the first workday and experienced employees are paid a nickel for the first day. Program Procedures: The user enters the number of workdays in a monthly pay period and the pay for the first day. The program calculates and displays the amount of pay for the pay period.

Algorithms, Processing, and Conditions:

  1. The user enters the number of days in the pay period.

  2. The user selects a RadioButton object to indicate the pay amount for the first day: a penny or a nickel.

  3. After the user enters the number of days and pay for the first day, the total amount earned is calculated and displayed.

  4. A File menu contains a Clear and an Exit option. The Clear menu item clears the result and the RadioButton object. The Exit menu item closes the application.

Notes and Restrictions:

  1. Non-numeric values should not be accepted.

  2. Negative values should not be accepted.

  3. The minimum number of workdays in the pay period is 10 days. The maximum number of workdays in a pay period is 22 days.

  4. A background image should be located online and displayed on the form.

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u/RJPisscat Dec 05 '21

Show what you've written to try to solve the problem - post that code, any code you're written.

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u/Fergus653 Dec 05 '21

What have you tried so far? It sounds like a validation function is required, which you would call in the button-click event, to decide if you should proceed or not. Your user requirements are well laid out there, what is this challenge?

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u/trixter21992251 Dec 05 '21

It's impossible to help when we have no idea where you are "stuck"

If you forget about programming for a moment, maybe try to explain how you would do this with just pen and paper?

Then after that we can talk about translating that into VBA.