Fundamentals
The Programming Candy Store Due Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Youre 10 years old. No, really, you are. Just humor me for a moment.
PROJECT #1
Youre 10 years old, and you loooooove chocolate. You love it so much that you save every cent you can get your hands on mostly from going through the couch cushions and raiding your parents nightstands so you can go to the center of town and buy chocolates at the local candy shop. Its all good chocolate at this store, but you do have favorites. Your absolute favorites are the Ton o Chocolate Turtles big as the palm of your hand, and filled with the worlds BEST caramel. Next you love the Nutty Cups, peanut butter cups that put Reeses to absolute shame. After those, you drool for the Death by Chocolate Truffles (chocolate outer shells, and gushy chocolate insides). And last but not least, you love the Twisters pretzels dipped in white chocolate. These are the relative costs of your favorites, in order of preference: Ton o Chocolate Turtles Nutty Cups Death by Chocolate Truffles Twisters $2.25 each $0.90 each $0.55 each $0.07 each
Your mission is to take the money in your pocket and maximize the chocolate bliss you can buy with it. You first want to buy as many Turtles as you can afford. With what is left, buy as many Nutty Cups as you can. With the remainder, buy as many Truffles as you can. Finally, buy as many Twisters as you can with what little is left over. Figure out how many you can buy of each candy and print out how many you are buying, how much you spent, and how much you have left in an output like this example, for the starting amount $4.85:
Candy Amount Price ------------------------------------------------------Ton o Chocolate Turtles 1 $2.25 Nutty Cups 2 $1.80 Death by Chocolate Truffles 1 $0.55 Twisters 3 $0.21 ------------------------------------------------------TOTAL $4.81 ------------------------------------------------------Leftover: $0.04
Your output does not have to look EXACTLY like this, but it needs to have all of this information justified in columns, with the decimal points lined up. Your program will start by asking how much money is in your pocket which will be entered in the form: 3.45 Page 1 of 2
Read this number in You carefully! are going to need to do modulo arithmetic in this problem; therefore, you need to manipulate all of the numbers as integers, not floating point numbers. Therefore, do all of your math with amounts that discuss how many cents you have as a whole integer number so, an input of 3.45 will have to be converted into the integer 345. One way to do this would be to read it as a float, multiply it by 100, and cast the result as an integer. Work with the prices for each candy as cents and not dollars as well i.e., the Turtles are worth 150 cents. Once your program has the input for the amount you are starting with, it has to figure out how much to buy of each and print the result in a nice output like what is above. Since you are working with integers, you will have to figure out how to print out the costs as dollars and cents. Here are the niddly details of the project: Start with an algorithm first write out in English the steps you think you will need to do in order to get the data you need, and then figure out exactly what to buy. Turn this in by Friday, September 17, in class. This will be part of your grade. When you write your actual program, follow the Programming Style Guidelines, including: the header at the top of the program; comments for the variables you declare; and appropriate comments for each major ste...