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LESSON 158 OF 415 · LOOPING OVER ARRAY INDICES

Employee of the Year V4 - Project in Swift

Practice

A whole team is competing. Use a for loop over the arrays to find the most productive employee, then print their 15% bonus.

You start with:

        let names = ["John Doe", "Mary Jane", "Bob Smith", "Alice Chen", "Carlos Diaz"]
        let productivities = [83, 133, 97, 150, 120]
        let salaries = [135000, 335000, 210000, 250000, 180000]

Build:

Alice Chen
Bonus: $37500

Rules:

  • Index i in all three arrays refers to the same employee.
  • The winner is whichever employee has the highest productivity. If two employees share the highest productivity, the one listed first wins.
  • The winner's bonus is 15% of their salary, rounded down to a whole number.
  • Print the winner's name on the first line, then "Bonus: $<amount>" on the second.

Start with var bestIndex = 0 and loop over the other indices with for i in 1..<names.count. Inside the loop, update the best index only when productivities[i] > productivities[bestIndex]: a strict comparison keeps the first employee on a tie.

Dividing two whole numbers (Int) drops the fraction, so salaries[bestIndex] * 15 / 100 is already rounded down: let bonus = salaries[bestIndex] * 15 / 100

Convert the number with String(...) (or use \(...) inside the text): print("Bonus: $" + String(bonus))

        let names = ["John Doe", "Mary Jane", "Bob Smith", "Alice Chen", "Carlos Diaz"]
        let productivities = [83, 133, 97, 150, 120]
        let salaries = [135000, 335000, 210000, 250000, 180000]

        var bestIndex = 0
        for i in 1..<names.count {
            if productivities[i] > productivities[bestIndex] {
                bestIndex = i
            }
        }
        let bonus = salaries[bestIndex] * 15 / 100
        print(names[bestIndex])
        print("Bonus: $" + String(bonus))

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