Payroll Program - please help

Question

I have a Java assignment due this Sunday, and I'm lost. I'm completely new to Java and this is only the second thing I've tried so far, so bear with me please, and don't laugh. :)
This is the assignment:
+"Create a non-GUI based Java application that calculates weekly pay for an+
+employee. The application should display text that requests the user input the name+
+of the employee, the hourly rate, and the number of hours worked for that week. The+
+application should then print out the name of the employee and the weekly pay+
+amount. In the printout, display the dollar symbol ($) to the left of the weekly pay+
+amount and format the weekly pay amount to display currency."+
In my chapter it talks about how to write a program that adds integers, so I tried to emulate that example but instead make it multiply. I wasn't sure how to do the employee's name, there is an explanation on printing lines of text, but not inputing and displaying text, only numbers. So for the employee's name I did some guesswork (for the data type declaration, etc), so I have no idea if that's right, (or if any of this is for that matter). I also don't know how to make it display the dollar symbol.
Here is what I did so far:
// Payroll Program Part 1
import java.util.Scanner; // program uses class Scanner
public class Multiplication
   // 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; // employee name to display
      int number1; // first number to multiply
      int number2; // second number to multiply
      int product; // product of number1 and number2
      System.out.print( "Enter employee name: "); // prompt
      name = input.nextString (); // read employee name from user
      System.out.print( "Enter hourly rate: " ); // prompt
      number1 = input.nextInt(); // read first number from user
      System.out.print( "Enter hours worked: " ); // prompt
      number2 = input.nextInt(); // read second number from user
      product = number1 * number2; // multiply numbers
      System.out.println( "Employee \n", name): // display employee name
      System.out.printf( "Weekly pay is %d\n", product ); // display product
   } // end method main
} // end class MultiplicationKnow that I'm not asking anyone to do my homework for me, I just need some direction. I don't know what I'm doing, my teacher isn't helping and I'm not getting anything out of my chapters. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Answer 1

newark wrote:
You don't know how to print the $ symbol? Your code shows that you know how to print with System.out.println()...all that's left is finding the $ symbol on the keyboard...
So what exactly is your problem? You say you don't know if your code is right. I have a suggestion...*run* your code and see if it works. If it works, it's right. If not, then come back here and let us know what it does do, including any exact error messages you might get.It's not easy to detect sarcasm over the Internet. Seriously I didn't think it would be that simple, but I just added the symbol, so now it says +"Weekly pay is $%d\n"+
I don't know if that's in there right.
Also, I tried to compile the program, and it found four errors, I fixed a couple (changed : to ; and apparently the public class name has to be the same as the file name, so now its public class Payroll1), but there are two others mistakes I made, both of which were my attempt at trying to include the program request the input and display the output for the employee name.
They are both "cannot find symbol" errors, the first one is input.*nextString ()*; and the second is System.out.*println*
So my guess at replacing int with "String" was wrong, and println is wrong. I'm going to try something else.