Tuition fee balance calculator

[Christian Gray]

Tuition Program
Enter tuition: 20000.45
Mode of payment
[1] Full Payment - 20% Discount
[2] Installment A - 5% Interest
[3] Installment B - 10% Interest
Enter the mode of payment: 1
You are going to pay P16,000.36 tuition.

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Tuition Program
Enter tuition: 4999
Tuition that is less than 5,000 is not allowed.

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Tuition Program
Enter tuition: 20000
Mode of payment
[1] Full Payment - 20% Discount
[2] Installment A - 5% Interest
[3] Installment B - 10% Interest
Enter mode of payment: 4
Invalid mode of payment. Select from 1 - 3 only.

Does anyone knows how to program this output.

[Carey Brown]

What step are you stuck on? Can you write a method that implements the menu selection?

[Christian Gray]

How can I code this input that when I enter a 4999 the program will say "Tuition that is less than 5,000 is not allowed? and if I 4 in the mode of payment it will shows " invalid mode of payment".
Mode of payment
[1] Full Payment - 20% Discount
[2] Installment A - 5% Interest
[3] Installment B - 10% Interest

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch
How far have you got? Are you getting input at all? Please show us how you are getting that input. If the input is < 5000, can you work out how to handle that situation? How are you coding the “valid” types of input?

[Norm Radder]

Also posted here: https://www.javaprogrammingforums.com/whats-wrong-my-code/43520-java.html

Please read:  https://coderanch.com/wiki/660346/Wiki/Forthright-Cross-Posting-Sites

[Christian Gray]

Sorry, it's my first time, here is where I'm stuck with.


import java.util.*;

public class TuitionProgram{
static Scanner console = new Scanner (System.in);
public static void main (String args[]){
       int tuition;
int payment;



if (tuition < 5000) {
           System.out.println("Tuition that is less than 5,000 is not allowed.");

       } else {
           System.out.println("Mode of payment");
           System.out.println("[1] Full Payment - 20% Discount");
           System.out.println("[2] Installment A - 5% Interest");
           System.out.println("[3] Installment B - 10& Interest");

           System.out.print("Enter mode of payment: ");
           payment = reads.nextInt();

[Matthew Bendford]

payment = reads.nextInt();
I can already imagine the follow up questions, so may let me go ahead: Are you familiar with how to use Scanner and its nextXXX() methods?

[Christian Gray]

I'm not

[Norm Radder]

The first problem I see is that the contents of tuition is tested (in an if statement) before it is given a value.
Where is the value in tuition supposed to come from?

[Carey Brown]

public class TuitionProgram{
static Scanner console = new Scanner (System.in);
...
    payment = reads.nextInt(); // should be console.nextInt() per new Scanner

I would also like to see the variable named "paymentMethod". "payment" sounds like it should be a monetary amount.

Also, when you post code, please UseCodeTags (<--link). Thanks.

[salvin francis]

OP, please select a meaningful topic when creating a post. "Java" does not sound intuitive for a post like this. I changed the topic to a better suitable one. Hope you like it.

[salvin francis]

From a user experience standpoint, I don't think "Enter tuition" sounds right. Maybe you want to prompt the user to enter the total fee ? I am also curious about what is the expected output when user selects 2 or 3 from your displayed menu.