 Quote by burns12
That does help actually, it makes sense to do it like that now that I see it. But the problem is we haven't done any of that in class. I have some programming experience in java and this is c++ so I know the basics but this is killing me. We haven't done loops yet even. All we have to work with is functions and if/else statements.
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For what you need to do, you don't need loops. You are taking a starting time and a quitting time and calculating the number of hours and the pay - that's all.
Quote by burns12
How do you get it to convert the time to 24 hour time?
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You need to do it in two parts: the hour and the minutes.
If the hour is earlier than 1 PM, multiply by 100. For example 8 AM is 800.
If the hour is 1 PM or later, add 2. For example, 1:00 PM is 1300.
After you have converted the hours to 24-hour time, add on the minutes. For example: 8:30 AM becomes 830 and 2:15 PM becomes 1415.
This leads to some difficulties, though, because if someone starts work at 8:30 (830) and works to 2:15 (1415), you might naively calculate the elapsed time as 1415 - 830 = 585, which is incorrect. The actual amount of time is 5 hours and 45 minutes.
To handle this difficulty it might be simpler to convert to hours + decimal part. Using the same times,
8:30 = 8.5
2:15 = 14.25
14.25 - 8.5 = 5.75, which is 5 hours and 45 minutes, the correct elapsed time.
To summarize, after parsing the input string into hour and minutes, convert any times after 1 pm by adding 2, and convert minutes to fractions of hours by dividing the minutes by 60.
For example 4:55 PM = 16.916667 (rounded).
Quote by burns12
What type should I make the input variables? Ints or strings or what?
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Making the input times strings would make for simpler user input, but more complicated code, since you have to take the string apart and extract the information in it.