Employee payroll program problems

Question

I have done good so far but now im stuck and lost on how to take my program to the next step, kids got sick and i missed like a week of school so im behind. I am suppose to modify the Payroll Program so that it uses a class to store and retrieve the employee?s name, the hourly rate, and the number of hours worked. Use a constructor to initialize the employee information, and a method within that class to calculate the weekly pay. Once stop is entered as the employee name, the application should terminate. I am lost on the bold part..
here is what I have:
//Calculates weekly pay for an employee
import java.util.Scanner; // program uses class Scanner
     public class BeemansPayroll
     private double rate;
     private double hours;
     private String name;
     //Used to save info
public BeemansPayroll(String Name, double PayRate, double Hours)
     String name = Name;
     double rate = PayRate;
     double hours = Hours;
private static void Quit()
System.out.println("Thank You for using Beeman's Payroll");
System.exit(0);
// main method begins execution of Java application
public static void main(String args[])
// create Scanner to obtain input from command window
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
String name = "";
do {
System.out.print("Enter Employee Name or stop to quit: ");
// prompt for name
name = input.next(); // get name
          if (name.equals("stop"))
System.out.println("Thank You for using Beeman's Payroll");
Quit();
} //end if
else
double PayRate;
double Hours;
double Pay;
     System.out.print("Please enter Employee payrate:$ "); // prompt
     PayRate = input.nextDouble(); // read first number from user
          while (PayRate <= 0)
                    System.out.println ("Invalid amount, Payrate must be positive");
                    System.out.print("Please enter valid payrate:$ ");
                    PayRate = input.nextDouble();
               } //end if      
System.out.print("Please enter Employee hours: "); // prompt
Hours = input.nextDouble(); // read second number from user
                         while (Hours <= 0)
                    System.out.println ("Invalid amount, Hours must be positive");
                    System.out.print("Please enter hours worked: ");
                    Hours = input.nextDouble();
               } //end if
Pay = PayRate * Hours; // multiply numbers
System.out.printf("Employee Pay for the week %s, is $%.2f\n", name,
(PayRate * Hours)); // display product
} //end else
}while (!name.equals("stop"));
Quit();
} // end method main
} // end class Beeman's Payroll

Answer 1

john774077 wrote:
Like I said, I am lost, with all that is going on I have done the reading 4 times , Then try reading a different source such as the Sun Java tutorials. They are excellent and there is no substitute to your reading and learning. We can help you debug an error in your code, but we are not a tutorial service nor a homework production service. Note also that we are all volunteers.
on top of kids getting sick and taking three algebra all at once. I advice you to not go on and on about this. This is not our problem and won't affect how or if someone helps you. If anything continued mention of this will turn many away who would otherwise help you.
How or where do I go about breaking it down?You are redeclaring the variables in your constructor, i.e.,:
String name = Name;  // don't do thisDon't do this because you'll never change the class's name variable this way. Instead in the constructor do something like this for each variable:
name = Name;or
this.name = Name;Later you will need to read up on Java naming conventions.
As for creating the method, you should read up on method creation in your text book or tutorial. That'll give you a better explanation than we can, I think.