Thread: First day of ever working with Java.. Already confused -.-

So today was in all reality my first day of working with java.. Usually the teacher does a nice little slide show and so on.. But today he gave us a minor program to write and I've gotten to like the last 5 lines.. And I have no idea what to do.. Basically to complete the assignment we have to do the comments I put at the bottom.. It's hard to understand it..

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lines 33-37 are what I mean..

I'm not looking for anyone to do it for me, just kinda instruct me if you don't mind ^^.. I've never done a programming language in my life and this is like a foreign language so far ^^

Thanks for your help

Well how would I set something like this up? like how would I tell it to take the number input and increase it by %10? Thats what gets me, I've done google searches and watched videos but nothing is comparable to what I'm doing.. And if I can't make a comparison then I'm stuck ;/

To get the percent of a number, you multiply it by the percentage value with the decimal two places to the left. So ten percent of 60 = 60 * 0.10.

So just get your input, set the var to: var += (var * 0.10).

Var "increment by" 10 percent of var (in plain English).

Like Junky said, math, not Java, but still, hope it helps.

-summit45