A retierment Calculator with arrays to pass and three classes

[fonzi]

Hi, i am struggling with this assignment . I have to create a retierment calculator that keep track of x amount of years in x.length of array for each index in the array it keeps the info. and the index after the one before uses the results of the one before as a starting point so i have a constructor and my main to test this but i have no idea where to go now and why my for loop is not working



public class RetiermentCalculator
{
AccountInformation[] years = new AccountInformation[2];
public RetiermentCalculator(int aYear, double aBeginIncome, double aContribution, double aReturn )
{
double answer = 0.0;
for (int index = 0; index < years.length; index ++)
{
double finance = (aBeginIncome + aContribution) ;
double intrestMade = finance * aReturn;
answer = finance + intrestMade;

}

System.out.println(answer);
}



}

[Solarsonic]

Hi, i am struggling with this assignment . I have to create a retierment calculator that keep track of x amount of years in x.length of array for each index in the array it keeps the info. and the index after the one before uses the results of the one before as a starting point so i have a constructor and my main to test this but i have no idea where to go now and why my for loop is not working



public class RetiermentCalculator
{
AccountInformation[] years = new AccountInformation[2];
years[0] = new Account5, 7.0, 8.0, 1.0
public RetiermentCalculator(int aYear, double aBeginIncome, double aContribution, double aReturn )
{
double answer = 0.0;
for (int index = 0; index < years.length; index ++)
{
double finance = (aBeginIncome + aContribution) ; double intrestMade = finance * aReturn;
answer = finance + intrestMade;

}

System.out.println(answer);
}



}

Since you want your answer variable to be used by every instance, make it static. Also, initalize all of your variables outside the for loop. Last but not least, make a method for the for loop.

From what you're telling me, it would look like this:

public class RetirementCalculator{

static double answer;
RetirementCalculator[] years = new RetirementCalculator[2];

public RetirementCalculator(parameters){
double finance=blabla;
double interestMade=blabla;
}

years[0] = new RetirementCalculator(parameters);
years[1] = new RetirementCalculator(parameters);

public static String sumOfAnswers(RetirementCalculator[] info){
for (RetirementCalculator c : info) {
answer+= c.finance+c.interestMade;
}
return answer;
}

System.out.println(sumOfAnswers(years));
}

Fill in the "blabla" and "parameters". If you get any errors let me know, I didn't test this.

[fonzi]

thank you very much , this works so well for me i needed to use += and declared all the variables outside of the for loop :D thank you again you helped me a lot