Adding nested loop in order to print out a table

[dylan terry]

My final project for my university is to enhance my code in order to have it print out the total price including the discount but before shipping charges and taxes. The rows should be items sold and the columns should be the wait of the items. I am starting to get frustrated, been at this for hours cant seem to figure it out. As a hint he says to use nested loops?

Heres my codes I have 1 main class and 1 test class

package assignment3;


public class DataEquations {

    private int ItemsPurchased; // first number to add
    private double ItemWeight; // second number to add
    private double PricePerPound = 3.00; // sum of number1 and number2
    private double taxrate = .01; // Tax Rate
    private double Discount;
    private double VariablePrice;

    public DataEquations() {
    }

    public DataEquations(int Items, double Weight) {
        ItemsPurchased = Items;
        ItemWeight = Weight;
    }

    public void setItems(int Items) {
        ItemsPurchased = Items;
    }

    public void setWeight(double Weight) {
        ItemWeight = Weight;
    }

    public int getItems() {
        return ItemsPurchased;
    }

    public double getWeight() {
        return ItemWeight;
    }

    public double getPriceBeforeTaxes() {
        return ItemsPurchased * ItemWeight * PricePerPound;
    }

    public double getPriceAfterTaxes() {
        return ((getPriceBeforeTaxes() * getDiscount())  + getShipPrice() + getBoxPrice()) * (1 +getTax());


    }
    public double getTotalWeight(){
        return ItemsPurchased * ItemWeight;
    }

    public double getTax(){
        return (taxrate);
    }

    public double getDiscount() {
        if (ItemsPurchased >= 25 & (ItemsPurchased < 50)){
            Discount = 1 - .05;
        } else if (ItemsPurchased >= 50 & (ItemsPurchased < 100)) {
            Discount = 1 - .10;
        } else if (ItemsPurchased >= 100 & (ItemsPurchased < 200)) {
            Discount = 1 - .15;
        } else if (ItemsPurchased >= 200 & (ItemsPurchased < 500)) {
            Discount = 1 - .20;
        } else if (ItemsPurchased >= 500& (ItemsPurchased < 1000)) {
            Discount = 1 - .25;
        } else if (ItemsPurchased >= 1000) {
            Discount = 1 - .30;

        } else if (ItemsPurchased < 25)
                Discount = 1;
        return Discount;
    }

        public double getShipPrice(){
        if (getTotalWeight() >= 0 & (getTotalWeight() < 10)){
            VariablePrice = 2.00;
        } else if (getTotalWeight() >= 10 & (getTotalWeight() < 50)) {
            VariablePrice = 4.00;
        } else if (getTotalWeight() >= 50 & (getTotalWeight() < 100)) {
            VariablePrice = 8.00;
        } else if (getTotalWeight() >= 100 & (getTotalWeight() < 500)) {
            VariablePrice = 12.00;
        } else if (getTotalWeight() >= 500& (getTotalWeight() < 1000)) {
            VariablePrice = 20.00;
        } else if (getTotalWeight() >= 1000) {
            VariablePrice = 30.00;
 } 
        return VariablePrice + 2.95;

    }
        public double getBoxPrice() {
            return getTotalWeight() / 10  * 2 ;
        }
 public int getBoxes() {
     int Boxes = (int)(getTotalWeight() / 10 + .9999);
     return Boxes;
 }
}

and my Main Class

package assignment3;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class PriceCalculator {

    
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in );
       DataEquations price = new DataEquations();

       System.out.print( "Enter Number of Items Purchased: " ); // prompt
      int Items = input.nextInt(); // read first number from user
      price.setItems(Items);

      System.out.print( "Enter Weight of Items: " ); // prompt
      double Weight = input.nextDouble(); // read second number from user
      price.setWeight(Weight);
      
      while ((Items <=0 || (Items >10000000)))
          
              
        System.out.printf("Base Price = $%.2f\n", price.getPriceBeforeTaxes());

        System.out.printf("Discount = $%.2f\n", price.getPriceBeforeTaxes() * (1- price.getDiscount()));

        System.out.printf("Base Price Including Discount = $%.2f\n", price.getPriceBeforeTaxes() * price.getDiscount());

        System.out.printf("Ship Price = $%.2f\n", price.getShipPrice());
      
        System.out.printf("Base Price With Discount and Ship Price = $%.2f\n", price.getPriceBeforeTaxes() * price.getDiscount()
                                                                                                            + price.getShipPrice());
       
        System.out.printf("Number of Boxes Needed = %d\n", price.getBoxes());

        System.out.printf("Box Price = $%.2f\n", price.getBoxPrice());

      System.out.printf("Subtotal = $%.2f\n", price.getPriceBeforeTaxes() * price.getDiscount() + price.getShipPrice() 
                                                                                                        + price.getBoxPrice());

      System.out.printf("Tax on Purchase = $%.2f\n", (price.getPriceBeforeTaxes() * price.getDiscount() + price.getShipPrice()
                                                                                                        + price.getBoxPrice()) * price.getTax());

      System.out.printf("Total Price = $%.2f\n", price.getPriceAfterTaxes());

  
        
    }

}

Thanks for all the help ive been really struggling!


[HENRY: Fixed code tags. And did some formatting]

[Steve Fahlbusch]

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[Jared Malcolm]

dylan terry wrote: As a hint he says to use nested loops?

I don't see where you've followed his hint first off.....

[fred rosenberger]

No offense, but your code is kind of a mess... You don't follow conventions, so it gets very confusing. For example, when I see "Items", Since the first letter is capitalized, I think it is a class, not a reference.

You have a class called "DataEquations", but then make a reference variable it called 'price'. A price is not an equation, or a set of equations...a price should be (at least in my mind) a number.

On line 21 of your PriceCalculator class, you have a while loop, with an...odd...condition. I'm not saying it is wrong, but it doesn't look like anything that makes any sense to me. Why have these magic numbers?

Your while statement doesn't have any curly braces, so there is only one line in it's body. So let's assume I input a value of '2'. Since 2 is not <= 0, or > 10000000 (however many 0's you have), it skips the loop body, which is only the line 24. Then lines 26-45 all run.

Now, let's assume i put in a value of "-2". This makes the condition TRUE, and now i'm stuck in an infinite loop printing "Base Price = $-84.00" (or whatever price I input) forever, since you never change anything that would affect your condition.

so...I am assuming you need some major revisions to your code here. I would guess that you are supposed to ask the user how many items to ship (that part seems to work). I would then guess that you need a loop that gets the input weight of each and every item, one at a time, an stores all those values in a collection of some kind (and Array or ArrayList would work fine).

Once you have that done, I would work on printing out the data for each element.