Weekly Status Report #5

This week was very clear and defined in the sense of what I wanted to accomplish, and what I did accomplish. At the beginning of the week, after our lesson, we were given an assignment on developing a payroll for a sales person at a coffee shop. My goal was to finish this program early, because I expected some bonus portion to be added as usual. This program had some inherent difficulty as we need to use CASE and IF...THEN statements to complete it. Despite the difficulty, I accomplished my goal of completing it early. This was also the only work we had for the week, which was obviously accomplished as well.

I have no work remaining from the week, as by completing the normal assignment combined with the bonus, I have finished all of this week's work. The bonus assignment which I also completed added some difficulty, but that was overcome in ways I shall explain in the challenges portion of this report. The bonus assignment was basically to add a menu, in which the user could input the hourly rates and tax rates, however, this was to be done using a Dialog Box. After the lesson and some help from friends, I managed to complete the bonus.

The difficulties I encountered this week were figuring out how to effectivley code the first part of the assignment and then successfully add in the bonus material. The bonus material was difficult because when trying to transfer information from the dialog box to the main form, everything transfered as "0". However, this was due to a typo, so overcoming this obstacle wasn't overtly difficult.


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