Freelancers. How much you make an hour.

[teh mauler]

Quite simple really. I decided to make it in QBasic to help me jog my memory a little. It is not complete yet but ill show you what I have so far (not much) updates as I move along. I plan on making it look "pretty" so it may take longer than it really should. The code from this will show how much my teacher loves standards of the industry.

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'**                         Programmer: Jon Brown                           **
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'**                          Program Objective:                             **
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'**      To Calculate how much on average a freelancer makes per hour       **
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CLS
GOSUB A100.Initialize
GOSUB B100.CreateMenu
GOSUB C100.WrapUp

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A100.Initialize:
RandomMoney = 0
Name$ = ""
Hours = 0
AmountEarned = 0
RETURN

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'/\                             Create Menu                                  /
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B100.CreateMenu:
RETURN

Also please note when I finish it the program assumes you keep track of hours you worked on a job, because it simply can't just amazingly know it for you.

[cdr]

Stretch the skin why don't you.

[PicoDeath]

It puts it in a frame for me..

[teh mauler]

Originally Posted by PicoDeath

It puts it in a frame for me..

same here. I would automatically modify the code if it stretched the skin so that it doesn't stretch the skin cdr. Also forgot to mention it will be available for download once I finish it. It will be a .exe. If you want the source please ask for it (why you would want it I don't know but w/e) you can modify the source as you want but please make sure you always have Original work done by my name (which will be in the source) extensions by (your name).

[Little_Crow]

wierd. it streaches like crazy for me. its cool though, even if I have no clue what it is.

[teh mauler]

Freelancers, which i am sure you have heard of, do jobs through internet or other means without being apart of a business. Therefore it is generally one person hired by someone to come in and fix or create something. These people generally do not pay a tax on their pay check (please correct me if I am mistaken) from the company or person they do the job for. You can almost think of a freelancer as a kid who mows someones lawn for $15.00. Freelancers have no benefits(unless they have another job that provides them or they pay for health care, dental care, etc . . . ).

What this program will do is simply take the amount of money they made on a job and divide that by the amount of hours they worked on it and round it to the nearest hundredth. It will also have the option to figure in expenses that the freelancer paid to get a job done that he did not charge the customer for (for example a programming language compiler/interpreter or updated version of). It will then subtract those expenses from the amount that the freelancer made when the job was completed (regardless of hours) and display that amount as well.

So far it does nothing. It declares some variables I will be using and that is it. Also if you know nothing about QBasic I will be making tutorials on it once my site Animated Graffiti (link) is completed which is far from finished.

[Payne IV]

Pretty cool you're learning how to code more, but I don't really see this being useful, I mean I could do this all with a calculator, or even in my head.

[teh mauler]

Originally Posted by Payne IV

Pretty cool you're learning how to code more, but I don't really see this being useful, I mean I could do this all with a calculator, or even in my head.

I know you can do that but, yes there is a but, this will do it fairly quickly almost in an instant an store it *gasp* in a file that you can later go back to as a record. This takes the "hassle" out of doing the math basically.

[Payne IV]

Well I don't really see the point of finding out how much I made an hour.. If you make 200 dollars and worked an estimated 6 ours, you can easily do that in your head. It would take longer to open the program, and then do it.

I'm not saying don't do it, because you should, it will help you learn I'm sure.

[teh mauler]

I can see your point but like I said it will keep a record, which if you want can modify, and also how many people these days actually take the time (especially people who lets be honest horrible at math) will look for a calculator in their house or open the one on the computer, when they can logically input these values in an order and without having to figure out the order of precedence (which quite frankly is obvious) do the math for them. I understand the calculator bit that you are saying. But when I use a calculator quite frankly sometimes in my head I'm thinking ok this number times this number + crap I forgot parentheses (i use a graphing calc). etc . . . but I understand your point and see validity in it. Also I am pretty much done with QBasic its just I believe I am going to a programming competition and would like to brush up on my skills regardless of how useful a program is. Currently I am learning Visual Basic so I am almost always coding.