CPSC 219: Assignment 1

Due January 27 at 4 PM.

New Concepts to be applied for the assignment

• Program documentation
• Input and output
• Formulas
• Decision making
• Looping

Aside from the 'main' method you are not to write static methods for this assignment. (If you don't know what I'm referring to by static methods, I will be discussing this topic later in the course).

Introduction

Write a program that will prompt the user for their birth month and the day of the month that the person was born. If a numeric value outside of 1 - 12 was entered for the month then the program should indicate that only a value from 1 - 12 is valid for the month and re-prompt for the information until a valid value has been entered. Your program does not have to handle cases where the user enters the name of the month (e.g., 'Mar', 'November' etc.) rather than a numeric value. Once a valid month has been entered then the program should prompt the user for the day of the month that they were born. The program should re-prompt for the day if an invalid value (<1) or (>31) has been entered or if the day of the month entered exceeds the maximum number of days in a particular month (e.g., a person can't be born on the 30th of February). You don't have to worry about the effect of a leap year for this assignment.

Finally the program should then display the user's astrological sign which is determined by the day/month that he or she was born. For your reference here is the mapping: