INFO Homework $1-$ Pennies Per Day

Write a program in PYTHON that calculates the amount of money a person would earn over a period of time if his or her salary is one penny the first day, two pennies the second day, and continues to double each day. The program should ask the user for the number of days. Display the salary for each day. Then show

the total pay at the end of the period as a dollar amount, not the number of pennies.

Things to include:

Specific error checking to determine a correct number of days. A general method for checking.

Do not allow the user to enter more than $31$ days.

Format all numbers over a thousand with commas.

Pattern the results table after the one below.

Enter the number of days: $25$

The tatal salary for $25$ days is: $$335,544\mathrm{.}31$

Rubric

Things to be included:

Main Function

Variables

Specific Error Checking

General Error Checking

Allow for more then $31$ days

Format the answer with commas

print the results in table form

make sure the calculaiton is correct

use a comment header

use comments throughout