Cash

Implement a program that calculates the minimum number of coins required to give a user change.

$ python cash.py
Change owed: 0.41
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Specification

Instructions for Harvard College students
  • Head to GitHub and, after signing in, accept this assignment on GitHub Classroom.
  • After about a minute, refresh the page and click the link to visit your personal GitHub Classroom assignment page.
  • On the assignment page, click the green Code button and choose Open with Codespaces.
  • Cilck New codespace and then, if prompted, Create codespace.
  • Once your Codespace loads, click the + button in the bottom section of your window (next to the word “bash”). You should then see blue text appear that says /workspaces/sentimental-cash-USERNAME (where USERNAME is your GitHub username).
Instructions for non-Harvard College students

Create a new directory called cash inside of your pset6 directory by executing

~/ $ mkdir ~/pset6/cash

Create a new file called cash.py inside your cash directory.

  • In cash.py, write a program that first asks the user how much change is owed and then spits out the minimum number of coins with which said change can be made, exactly as you did in Problem Set 1, except that your program this time should be written in Python.
  • Use get_float from the CS50 Library to get the user’s input and print to output your answer. Assume that the only coins available are quarters (25¢), dimes (10¢), nickels (5¢), and pennies (1¢).
    • We ask that you use get_float so that you can handle dollars and cents, albeit sans dollar sign. In other words, if some customer is owed $9.75 (as in the case where a newspaper costs 25¢ but the customer pays with a $10 bill), assume that your program’s input will be 9.75 and not $9.75 or 975. However, if some customer is owed $9 exactly, assume that your program’s input will be 9.00 or just 9 but, again, not $9 or 900. Of course, by nature of floating-point values, your program will likely work with inputs like 9.0 and 9.000 as well; you need not worry about checking whether the user’s input is “formatted” like money should be.
  • If the user fails to provide a non-negative value, your program should re-prompt the user for a valid amount again and again until the user complies.
  • Incidentally, so that we can automate some tests of your code, we ask that your program’s last line of output be only the minimum number of coins possible: an integer followed by a newline.

Usage

Your program should behave per the example below.

$ python cash.py
Change owed: 0.41
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Testing

While check50 is available for this problem, you’re encouraged to first test your code on your own for each of the following.

  • Run your program as python cash.py, and wait for a prompt for input. Type in 0.41 and press enter. Your program should output 4.
  • Run your program as python cash.py, and wait for a prompt for input. Type in 0.01 and press enter. Your program should output 1.
  • Run your program as python cash.py, and wait for a prompt for input. Type in 0.15 and press enter. Your program should output 2.
  • Run your program as python cash.py, and wait for a prompt for input. Type in 1.60 and press enter. Your program should output 7.
  • Run your program as python cash.py, and wait for a prompt for input. Type in 23 and press enter. Your program should output 92.
  • Run your program as python cash.py, and wait for a prompt for input. Type in 4.2 and press enter. Your program should output 18.
  • Run your program as python cash.py, and wait for a prompt for input. Type in -1 and press enter. Your program should reject this input as invalid, as by re-prompting the user to type in another number.
  • Run your program as python cash.py, and wait for a prompt for input. Type in foo and press enter. Your program should reject this input as invalid, as by re-prompting the user to type in another number.
  • Run your program as python cash.py, and wait for a prompt for input. Do not type anything, and press enter. Your program should reject this input as invalid, as by re-prompting the user to type in another number.

Execute the below to evaluate the correctness of your code using check50. But be sure to compile and test it yourself as well!

check50 cs50/problems/2021/summer/sentimental/cash

Execute the below to evaluate the style of your code using style50.

style50 cash.py

This problem will be graded only along the axes of correctness and style.

How to Submit

Instructions for Harvard College students

Harvard College students (those with an @college.harvard.edu email address) should submit this problem via GitHub, not via Gradescope.

In your Codespace, execute the below, replacing USERNAME with your actual GitHub username.

submit50 classroom50/sentimental-cash USERNAME
Instructions for non-Harvard College students
  1. Download your cash.py file by control-clicking or right-clicking on the file in CS50 IDE’s file browser and choosing Download.
  2. Go to CS50’s Gradescope page.
  3. Click “Problem Set 6: Sentimental (Cash)”.
  4. Drag and drop your cash.py file to the area that says “Drag & Drop”. Be sure it has the correct filename, or the autograder will fail to run on it, and it will score no correctness points!
  5. Click “Upload”.

You should see a message that says “Problem Set 6: Sentimental (Cash) submitted successfully!” You won’t see a score just yet, but if you see the message then we’ve received your submission!