it gives me one error

[tralfas]

the code im about to enter gives me one error the error is

\tuition.java:26: illegal start of expression
public static void displaywelcome()
^
1 error

 /*___________________*/
/* By- Elias Donahue */
/*___________________*/



import java.io.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;


public class tuition
{
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
	{
	int hours;
	double fees, rate, tuition, total;
	BufferedReader datain = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

	displaywelcome();
	hours = gethours();
	rate = getrate(hours);
	tuition = calctuition(hours, rate);
	fees = calcfees(tuition);
	total = displaytotal(tuition + fees);

 public static void displaywelcome()
{
	System.out.println("\t\tWelcome Friend");
}

public static int gethours()
{
	String strhours;
	int hours = 0;
	try
	{
	System.out.println("Enter the amount of hours worked");
	strhours = datain.readLine();
	hours = Integer.parseInt(strhours);
	}
	catch(NumberFormatException e)
	{
		System.out.println("Please enter a valid number");
	}
}
public static double getrate(int hours)
{
	 String strrate;
	 double temp;
	 double rate;
	 try
	 {
	 strrate = datain.readLine();
	 rate = Double.parseDouble(strrate);
	 if(strrate > 15)
	 {
		temp = rate * 1.5;
	 }
	 rate = temp;
	 }
	 catch(NumberFormatException e)
	 {
		System.out.println("Please enter a valid number");
	 }
}


public static double calctuition(int hours, double rate)
{
	double number1,tuition;
	String strone;

	System.out.println("Enter the rate at which you worked");
	strone = datain.readLine();
	number1 = Double.parseDouble(strone);



	tuition = number1 * hours;
	return tuition;
}

public static double calcfees(double tuition)
{
	double fees;


	fees = tuition * .08;
	return fees;
}
public static double displaytotal(double total)
{
	DecimalFormat twodigits = new DecimalFormat("$#,000.00");
	System.out.println("This is the total of fees and tuition" + total);

};
}
}

[nspils]

In looking at your code, the only thing I can suggest is to take the semi-colon out at the end of the definition of displaytotal

AND

have the definition of your various static methods be outside of the body of your method main.

public class tuition
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
	int hours;
	double fees, rate, tuition, total;
	BufferedReader datain = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

	displaywelcome();
	hours = gethours();
	rate = getrate(hours);
	tuition = calctuition(hours, rate);
	fees = calcfees(tuition);
	total = displaytotal(tuition + fees);
   } <-----

   public static void displaywelcome()
   {
	System.out.println("\t\tWelcome Friend");
   }

etc.

As a sidebar ... do you have a design purpose in having all of your methods declared public and static?

[tralfas]

i fixed the code following your post but now it still doesnt compile properly. now when i compile it it gives me these four errors

F:\java\chapter 4\programs\tuition.java:40: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable datain
location: class tuition
	strhours = datain.readLine();
                   ^
F:\java\chapter 4\programs\tuition.java:55: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable datain
location: class tuition
	 strrate = datain.readLine();
                   ^
F:\java\chapter 4\programs\tuition.java:57: operator > cannot be applied to java.lang.String,int
	 if(strrate > 15)
                    ^
F:\java\chapter 4\programs\tuition.java:76: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable datain
location: class tuition
	strone = datain.readLine();
                 ^
4 errors

this is the changed code

 /*___________________*/
/* By- Elias Donahue */
/*___________________*/



import java.io.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;


public class tuition
{
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
	{

	int hours;
	double fees, rate, tuition, total;
	BufferedReader datain = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

	displaywelcome();
	hours = gethours();
	rate = getrate(hours);
	tuition = calctuition(hours, rate);
	fees = calcfees(tuition);
	total = displaytotal(tuition + fees);

}
public static void displaywelcome()
{
	System.out.println("\t\tWelcome Friend");
}

public static int gethours()
{
	String strhours;
	int hours = 0;
	try
	{
	System.out.println("Enter the amount of hours worked");
	strhours = datain.readLine();
	hours = Integer.parseInt(strhours);
	}
	catch(NumberFormatException e)
	{
		System.out.println("Please enter a valid number");
	}
}
public static double getrate(int hours)
{
	 String strrate;
	 double temp;
	 double rate;
	 try
	 {
	 strrate = datain.readLine();
	 rate = Double.parseDouble(strrate);
	 if(strrate > 15)
	 {
		temp = rate * 1.5;
	 }
	 rate = temp;
	 }
	 catch(NumberFormatException e)
	 {
		System.out.println("Please enter a valid number");
	 }
}


public static double calctuition(int hours, double rate)
{
	double number1,tuition;
	String strone;

	System.out.println("Enter the rate at which you worked");
	strone = datain.readLine();
	number1 = Double.parseDouble(strone);



	tuition = number1 * hours;
	return tuition;
}

public static double calcfees(double tuition)
{
	double fees;


	fees = tuition * .08;
	return fees;
}
public static double displaytotal(double total)
{
	DecimalFormat twodigits = new DecimalFormat("$#,000.00");
	System.out.println("This is the total of fees and tuition" + total);

}
}

[tralfas]

i have to write this program with guidlines from the book and thats what the book told me to write them with ... public static.

[nspils]

Re static: I understand. But this is not the usual way of writing a program.

where you have "datain" : is that supposed to be "data.in" (notice the "dot" between "a" and "i")?

as to the "strrate > 15" issue: since you have already parsed strrate to be the double "rate", will your program work as planned if you replace the condition with "rate > 15"?

your next lines are going to give you trouble: if you never enter the loop you have no value for "temp". My suggestion is that you have "rate = rate * 1.5" as the statement within the if-clause, and remove the "rate = temp" statement - unless it is your intent to have some other value be the value of temp ... if so, then assign that value to temp when you declare it.

[nspils]

I went back and looked at your code, again. I see where datain is declared.

Right now, the "scope" of your datain BufferedReader is solely within the confines of your method main. It is not available inside any other of your methods. Therefore, you will either have to declare datain outside of main, or else pass your datain object to each of the methods which will be extracting data from the file. Since all of your methods are static, if you declare the object outside of method main it (datain) will also need to be static.