I am currently enrolled in a basic on-line community college course and I desperately need help before pulling out the rest of my hair. I have contacted the instructor and tried the tutors at school to no avail.

I am sure this is probably a very simple fix, but I just cant see it. The exercise involved writing a program using a specific method header and formula for after getting the input from a user of initial investment and annual interest, the program is to display a table showing the year and investment value for years 1 - 30. Also to be displayed at the beginning is the initial investment value, and interest year.

After many unsuccessful attempts, where I would get class or interface expected errors, I was finally able to compile and run. Only, the results is not what I need. Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Many thanks

BTW, I am using JBuilder 2005, 1.4.2

package flanagan_ch4_p43;

/**
* <p>Title: Programming Exercise 4.3</p>
*
* <p>Description: Computing the Future Investment Value</p>
*
* <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2005</p>
*
* <p>Company: NOVA College, ELI, ITP 120</p>
*
* @author Debora A. Flanagan
* @version 1.0
*/
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class Value {
/**main method*/
public static void main(String[] args) {

//Prompt the user to enter the initial investment amount
String investmentAmountString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog (null, "Enter the Investment Amount,"+
"\nfor example 1500.50", "Programming Exercise 4.3 Input", JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE);

//Change the string into a double value
double investmentAmount = Double.parseDouble(investmentAmountString);

//Prompt the user to enter the yearly interest rate
String annualInterestRateString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog (null, "Enter the Interest Rate," +
"\nfor example 9.25", "Programming Exercise 4.3 Input", JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE);

//Change the string into a double value
double annualInterestRate = Double.parseDouble(annualInterestRateString);

//Obtain monthly interest rate
double monthlyInterestRate = annualInterestRate/1200;

//Define number of years to display
int years;
years = 1;

System.out.println ("The amount invested: $" + investmentAmount);
System.out.println("Annual interest rate:" + annualInterestRate + " %");
System.out.println("Year" + "\t" + "Future Value");

double futureInvestmentValue = investmentAmount * Math.pow(1 + monthlyInterestRate, years * 12);
System.out.println(years + "\t" + futureInvestmentValue);
while (years <= 30)
years++;

}

/**Return the table for the investment amount value over the 30 years*/
public static double futureInvestmentValue (double investmentAmount, double monthlyInterestRate,
int years){

double futureInvestmentValue = investmentAmount * Math.pow(1 + monthlyInterestRate, years * 12);

while (years <= 30)

years++;
System.out.println("Year" + "\t" + "Future Value");
System.out.println(years + "\t" + futureInvestmentValue);
return 0.0;

}

}


This is what is displays:

The amount invested: $1000.0
Annual interest rate:5.0 %
Year Future Value
1 1051.161897881733

I hope this is what you wanted. I can go through each step if you don't understand.

Here's your problem :

You are way mixing up your while loop there. What you apparently intended to do
was to calculate and print the value for each year. What you are in fact doing is calculating the value for one year, incrementing the variable years 30 times, printing out the value for that first year, and returning. In short, your brace structure is messed up. Move the calculation inside the while loop and add some nice braces.

Thank you both for helping me out. I have been going around and around.

Debbie

Hi all,

I have a similar problem I have been working on, and have gotten the results to display in the DOS window, but would like to instead have them display in the JOptionPane. I know you need to use and empty string but I'm not sure how to implement this. I think I could replicate the process if I saw how you would do it in this particular case (using the JOptionPane for the code posted by Juvestar15). Can anyone give me some hints?

Thanks!

Hi georacer. Welcome to LQ.

Your problem is very likely to be unrelated so instead of reviving a 2 years old thread, please start a new one, and post some code showing where your problem is.

Hi,

Nevermind, I was able to find the solution. This problem was nearly the same as the one listed, I just needed to use a modified method.

Thanks,

Georacer