Emergency!

[Colora]

I'm doing great in my VB class, thanks to the help of some of you folks explaining things to me. I had this wonderful program I did for a project assignment, and saved it to diskette (no lectures please!) and the diskette is corrupted. The project is due *tomorrow* (Thursday the 30th) and all my notes, everything was on that diskette. I can't even figure out where to start it, my brain is fried from being upset. And so, I'm asking if someone will just plain DO this thing for me, and I'll tweak it. Honest, I know the stuff, but I'm so bent out of shape I can't even think anymore.

Here's the project (and remember, nothing fancy - this is a beginner's class!)

1) Design a form that receives the following info into text boxes:

customer name, address, city, state, zip, number of items ordered, price of item, sales tax rate.

2) each text box should have a label to the left, with an access key for each box.

3) program used by sales people on the phone or at a counter. Each time an item is ordered it is deducted from the inventory. Only one order per customer (who can buy more than one item in that order).

a) starting inventory: 100 of each of the following - skateboards @ $10.00 each, baseballs @ $5.00 each, helmets @ $20.00 each.

b) program should calculate order, clear the screen, display current inventory of all 3 items.

4) Five states in the state box - Connecticut (CT), Rhode Island (RI), New York (NY), Virginia (VA), and California (CA) listed in alpha order with CT being the default on focus. Tax rate for states would be CT: .04, RI: .03, VA: .02, NY: .05, CA: .05. Use if/then/else logic to test for bad data.

5) Allow name/address/etc. input to be stored in a simple data file, using either winword or notepad

That's it. For professional programmers this should be a piece of cake. I could do it myself if I had a few days, and it was almost completed except for the data file coding before my diskette went kablooey.

If anyone takes a stab at this and can get it to work, PLEASE send it to [email protected] asap.

Thanks,

Roberta

[dpeithman]

I would'nt have the nerve to ask this of anyone.

Perhaps your intructor could give you an extension since all you have to do is recreate what you already did. I've found that once I create something, it's very quick to recreate it.

[Arcom]

And this is also a good lesson why to make backups of your work. Or just save your files to hard disk and then copy them to floppy in the future. This once happened to me, so I burned it onto the CD-R next time. Better safe than sorry

[noble]

hmm, hmm, hmm

{CLEARS THROAT}

"This is your professor talking! And this is very bad what
you are doing..........."

oh nevermind


good luck, I'm sure your professor will give you an
extension

I hate to also tell you that "I told you so" routine BUT
it's very true. I encountered this a few times not only as a programmer but as an engineer. SAVE ALL YOUR WORK. FREQUENTLY! TO HARD DRIVES! NETWORK DRIVES THAT ARE BACKED UP! Save it in your palm pilot, your cell phone, your
TI-89, write it down, mail it to your mother, safety deposit boxes!!! Just make sure you have something to go back to at every stage in the creation process.

[Colora]

Alright alright all you geniuses...what part of this didn't you understand?

and saved it to diskette (no lectures please!)

::mutters:: In any case, I talked to my teacher, who said no sweat, I can grab a copy of someone else's code in class tonight and work with that.

Our class is a lab class, where all the students work together to solve problems and figure out where to put what. So I wasn't supposed to do it all by myself, and in fact had gotten a good chunk of the code from another student - because I wasn't really clear where/how to place it.

I know the formulae, I know it needs a couple of call functions, I have the actual form itself set up and all the objects named. I even have the code to determine the tax string when you click the state in the list box. And I know how to convert that string to numeric.

I'm just so brain dead from trying to recreate it from scratch that I gave up and had myself a good migraine instead.

Lectures..HRMPH! It's all on floppy and in my hard drive now, but this part of the stuff I know by heart, I can recite it in my sleep. Not gonna waste paper printing the small stuff out when it's the big stuff I'm having trouble with

Thanks anyway y'all!

Roberta