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The Calorie Program does the following:

• A mini-survey asks yes/no questions
• User answers questions about activities that they practice during a typical day
• User answers questions about junk foods that they eat in a typical day
• Based on a 2000 calorie diet of a 150lb person, program calculates the calorie gain/loss during the day.
• Program then converts calorie gain/loss into the equivalent pound gain/loss

Explanation of the Calorie-Counter Survey (Summary of Samantha's Essay):

• Creating different situation seemed boring. What I had in mind was more on the lines of having the user of the program decide the activities and foods practiced/consumed throughout a day. This mini-survey would have a large variety of situations that the user could arrange, increasing the appeal of the program.
• To create this program I needed some activities and junk foods and their calorie gain/loss
• First I set up a system where "1" meant yes and "2" meant no as the responses to the questions. I also needed to use if/else statements to cause the computer to decide if it needed to calculate or not the amount of calorie loss/gain. So, if a 1 was entered, I made the computer ask the user how much time the activity was practiced (in terms of hours) or how many servings of junk food were consumed. This allows the user to be more creative in inventing a situation.
• The program calculates then the amounts of calories during the day. At the end of the program, a calculation is done to present the user with how many calories were gained or lost during the day. It also presents the equivalent amount of pounds gained or lost.