programs

Question

Yo yo.. im a student studying Computing at university. Ive just been given my assignement and im pretty lost, i was just wondering if you guys/girls could lend a helping hand through the vast knowledge im sure you all have! the assignement is as follows: write a program to prompt the user to input an amount in pence. The program should then work out the least number of coins needed for this amount of money. The possible coins are £2, £1, 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 2p, 1p.. any help would be amazing cheers people