Application: Interest Calculation
This chapter creates an application that displays a simple form, shown in Figure 10.1. Behind the simple form is quite a lot of code that calculates an interest rate based on the user's entered values.
Figure 10.1. You will create an interest rate calculator that computes a future investment value.
Getting Ready to Write
The most important part of a program's design, the output definition, appears in Figure 10.1. Ordinarily, you won't have a figure to begin with when someone asks you to write a program for them. You will first have to interview that user and ask what kinds of information the program is to track ...
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