[rhymin]

First of all, this program is going to do the following:

• Allow input of two salesperson's names AND input of their yearly sales
• Calculate how much each salesperson earns each year by adding their yearly salary and commission from sales
• Compare the two salesperson's yearly compensation (salary AND commission) and display the name of the salesperson that earned the higher amount
• Calculate the difference between the 2 earnings and display that value as well

Questions (I know how to perform the calculations and how to display the results, but I am confused about a couple things):

1) This would use an array and not arraylist, correct? (I think because we know only 2 salespersons are entering information, it would be an array)

2) I'm not quite sure how to combine user input with arrays, could somebody show a simple example?

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Array or Arraylist? It depends if you are using multiple datatypes, if it is just strings you would use an Array, Many types of datatypes and you would use an ArrayList.

For an ArrayList you need to create an ArrayList Class.
An example is here http://javarevisited...a-tutorial.html

An example of an array:

String Fruit[] = {"Apple", "Pear", "Banana", "Strawberry"}

int i;

for (i = 0;i < Fruit.lenth;i++ ){
System.out.println("Some fruit:" + Fruit[i]);

}

Many of these questions can be answered by a simple google search, also please stick with one topic and post all your questions in to that one.

[Bismillah]

Array or Arraylist? It depends if you are using multiple datatypes, if it is just strings you would use an Array, Many types of datatypes and you would use an ArrayList.

For an ArrayList you need to create an ArrayList Class.
An example is here http://javarevisited...a-tutorial.html

An example of an array:

String Fruit[] = {"Apple", "Pear", "Banana", "Strawberry"}

int i;

for (i = 0;i < Fruit.lenth;i++ ){
System.out.println("Some fruit:" + Fruit[i]);

}

Many of these questions can be answered by a simple google search, also please stick with one topic and post all your questions in to that one.

[rhymin]

I will be using 2 datatypes.

String for the names and double for sales/salary.

Thanks.

Edited by rhymin, 08 March 2013 - 06:47 AM.

[Bismillah]

then you need an ArrayList or LinkedList