Project: Receipt Calculator
Projects are how you get out of tutorial hell. You've watched others build things step by step — now you build it yourself from a blank file. That hands-on practice fixes the thing every learner complains about: “I understand it while learning, then forget it a week later.”
Complete each project in your own environment and submit it by linking your code (e.g. a GitHub repo). Push your work to GitHub and submit the repository link below. Your project will be listed under submissions so other students can review it. Completing projects helps you practice real skills, build a portfolio, and earn progress in the course.
- Item prices and quantities stored in variables
- Subtotal, tax, and grand total calculated with math operators
- Money values displayed rounded to 2 decimals
- A readable receipt is printed with print()
Submissions
- B Skinner10/23/2026
A created Python command-line point-of-sale receipt generator built using variables, floats, integers, math operations, and string concatenation to calculate item totals, subtotal, sales tax, and the final grand total.
View project → - Abdul Samad Soomro9/15/2026View project →
- Gospel Onyeike9/9/2026
item1_name = "Apples" item1_price = 4.99 item1_qty = 2 item2_name = "Bread" item2_price = 2.50 item2_qty = 3 item3_name = "Coffee" item3_price = 10.00 item3_qty = 1 # --- Calculations --- subtotal = (item1_price * item1_qty) + \ (item2_price * item2_qty) + \ (item3_price * item3_qty) tax_rate = 0.08875 # NYC sales tax (8.875%) sales_tax = subtotal * tax_rate total = subtotal + sales_tax # --- Receipt Output --- print("========== STORE RECEIPT ==========") print(f"{item1_name:<10} ${item1_price:.2f} x {item1_qty}") print(f"{item2_name:<10} ${item2_price:.2f} x {item2_qty}") print(f"{item3_name:<10} ${item3_price:.2f} x {item3_qty}") print("------------------------------------") print(f"Subtotal: ${subtotal:.2f}") print(f"Sales Tax: ${sales_tax:.2f}") print(f"TOTAL: ${total:.2f}") print("====================================") print(" Thank you for shopping! ") print("====================================")
View project → - Irving Phillips7/13/2026
Build a small program that prints a store receipt. Starting from a few item prices and quantities stored in variables, calculate the subtotal, add sales tax, and print a neatly formatted receipt with a final total.
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