CS 159 – HW #06

CS 159 – HW #06

10 Points Possible
Problem: Given as input the value of ten years and a desired day of the week (0 – Sunday though 6 – Saturday) display
the months within the first year that begin on the desired day of the week. For the second through the tenth year the
desired day of the week will continually be incremented.
• On page 300 of your C programming text there are several useful formulas given as part of problem 60. All input
will be integer data and your program will only be tested with years from 1700 to 2100. The day of the week
number will be an integer and must be validated to be within the range from 0 to 6.
Example Execution #1:
Enter 10 years [1700 - 2100] -> 2021 2012 2020 2019 2013 2014 2018 2015 2017 2016
Enter day of week number -> 1
Desired day of the week: Monday
Months in 2021 starting on Monday: February March November
Months in 2012 starting on Tuesday: May
Months in 2020 starting on Wednesday: January April July
Months in 2019 starting on Thursday: August
Months in 2013 starting on Friday: February March November
Months in 2014 starting on Saturday: February March November
Months in 2018 starting on Sunday: April July
Months in 2015 starting on Monday: June
Months in 2017 starting on Tuesday: August
Months in 2016 starting on Wednesday: June
Example Execution #2 (input validation expectations demonstrated):
Enter 10 years [1700 - 2100] -> 2000 1996 1992 1988 1984 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Enter day of week number -> 9
Error! Day of the week must be 0 to 6.
Enter day of week number -> -1
Error! Day of the week must be 0 to 6.
Enter day of week number -> 4
Desired day of the week: Thursday
Months in 2000 starting on Thursday: June
Months in 1996 starting on Friday: March November
Months in 1992 starting on Saturday: February August
Months in 1988 starting on Sunday: May
Months in 1984 starting on Monday: October
Months in 2004 starting on Tuesday: June
Months in 2008 starting on Wednesday: October
Months in 2012 starting on Thursday: March November
Months in 2016 starting on Friday: January April July
Months in 2020 starting on Saturday: February August
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1. Add the homework assignment header file to the top of your program. A description of your program will need to
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you can consider all material in the first eight chapters of the book, notes, and lectures to be acceptable for use.
◦ The use of character arrays, including character pointers (chapter 11) to represent string data, would violate
requirements of this assignment and result in no credit being awarded for your effort.
◦ The use of any dynamic array structures (chapters 9 and 10) would violate this requirement and result in no
credit being awarded for your effort. See course standards below for array declaration expectations.
◦ Only a single integer array of size 10 is needed to solve this problem.
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• Code found inside the body of relevant selection and repetition constructs must be indented two additional spaces.
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