I need help with designing a program

[wardy]

Help

I need to design a program that for 12 ficticous people, the age can be worked out from the birth date.

Also, included in the program will be a way to work out the average exam score from a total of seven results. I have already designed this part but am having problems coding it and don't know how to link it to the rest

I am very new to programing and desperately need help

Cheers

wardy

[kedaman]

You could make an UDT like this one:

Type student
 name as string
 birth as date
 exams(6) as integer
end type

for storing the data, then you could declare the fictious people like this

Private people(12) as student

and get the age of the x'th student:

Age=datediff("yyyy",people(x),now)

and the average:

dim n as integer,average as integer
For n=0 to 6
 average=average+people(x).exams(n)
next n
average=average/7

[wardy]

Thanks for the great help

i'm not sure what objects i will need on my form, for example; will i need any command boxes e.t.c

Sorry if sound like a fool but as i say i am new to programming. Unfortunately my teacher at school does'nt care and thinks it would be fun for me to learn how to program in my summer holiday

[kedaman]

Actually that depends on you, the interface you want to design, but i could help you.

make a listbox for the list of students
make another for exams
make three textboxes, for the name, the birthdate and the selected exam points.
make three commandbuttons, for adding a student, for applying the exams scores, for checking the age and the average score.

If your exam is going to be out of 100%, then do not declare it as an Integer; declare it as a Byte instead. It will consume less memory.

Type Student
    strName As String
    dteBirth As Date
    Exams(6) As Byte
End Type