Decision Tool Project

You are trying to decide if a job is right for you, but there are many factors to consider and it is overwhelming. Write a program that considers your rating of several factors for a potential job, and calculates whether or not it is a good option.

Demo

Requirements

  • Represent each of the following factors as variables: salary, travel distance, difficulty, stability, opportunity for progress, enjoyability, benefits, and reputation.
  • Write a set of conditions (such as a maximum or minimum value for each variable) that must all be met in order to accept a job.
  • Set the variable values to be your score for each feature as is relates to the potential job (for example difficulty = 7).
  • For features without clear values, use a score from 0 to 10.
  • Display the result in the console, or accept the extra challenge defined later
  • Have it output "Accept the job" if all of the conditions are met, otherwise have it say "Don't work there".
  • If the benefits condition fails, have it override that failure if the salary is sufficiently higher than the minimum acceptable salary you set.

Extra Challenge

For a job that fails the test, also have it display all the reasons that it failed.

Don't work there. - The salary is too low. - There isn't enough opportunity for progress. - It's lacking in benefits

Hints

Keeping track of success conditions

It may help to have a variable to keep track of the success condition, set it true by default but mark it false if any condition isn't met. Then check it in the end.

var success = true; if (difficulty > 8) { success = false; // ... }
Keeping track of reasons for failure

It may help to have a string variable to keep track of the reasons for failure. Then you can append lines to it for each failure (use "\n" to break each line), and display the whole string in the end.

failReasons += "- The salary is too low.\n"