The day to upload the final project arrived. And here it is, here I am! Surviving my finals.
So, what this program basically does is it tells you what day of the week was, is or will be from whatever date you input to the program. It also tells you if the year of your date was a leap year or not, and gives you the option to display leap years from your date to 100 years later.
It gives you the option to create a text document, named as you like or named as the day of the week of your date (.txt). It gives you the optionto write information inside of the document.
Another interesting thing that it does is that it can tell you a cool fact about a leap year from 1900 to 2016, whichever one you choose.
To understand how it works better, run it on your computer or watch the demo run video (IN SPANISH) of the program here.
For this program I integrated my C++ knowledge learned on this course to be able to make it. In order for the program to work, I used:
- If else statements.
- While and do while statements.
- Basic input and output (CIN, COUT)
- For loops.
- Arrays. Exampel of use: int leap_ar [] = {1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016};
- File handling and creation.
- Writing on files.
- Strings.
- Basic algebra and operations.
- etc…
Among other useful tools learned during this course.
Credit for the equation used in this program to calculate the day of the week goes to: http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/chrweek.php#calcdow”
Credit for the info on leap years goes to http://www.infoplease.
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FLOW CHART OF CREATE NEW DOCUMENT FUCNTION:
FLOW CHART OF LEAP YEAR CALCULATOR FUNCTION:
Code available on Github:
https://github.com/netosanchezb/C-plus-plus/commit/ad14510158811f85e8540872feba032d4fbc4fae
Video (IN SPANISH) explaining how my project works:
FOR THOSE WHO DON´T LIKE GITHUB, CODE IS AVAILABLE HERE:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
int date_finder (int y, int m, int day){
string date;
int d = (day + y + (y/4) – (y/100) + (y/400) + ((31*m)/12))%7 ;
return d;
}
int leap_year (int y){
int leapo;
if ((y%4 == 0) && (y%100 == 0) && (y%400 == 0)){
cout << endl << y << ” is a leap year ” << endl;
leapo = 1;
} else if ((y%4 == 0) && (y%100 != 0)){
cout << endl << y << ” is a leap year” << endl;
leapo = 1;
} else {
cout << endl << y << ” is not a leap year” << endl;
leapo = 0;
}
return leapo;
}
int leap_list (int y) {
int real_leap;
for (int i = y; i <= (y + 100); i++){
//cout << endl << leap_year (i) << endl;
if (leap_year (i) == 1){
real_leap = i;
cout << endl << “The year ” << real_leap << ” is a leap year” << endl;
}
}
return real_leap;
}
int year_information (int year_info){
if (year_info == 1904)
cout << endl <<“Russo-Japanes War begins” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1908)
cout << endl <<“Earthquake and resulting tsunami kill 70,000 to 100,000 in southern Italy and Sicily.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1912)
cout << endl <<“The Titanic sinks. 3000 dead.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1916)
cout << endl <<“Pershing fails in raid into Mexico in quest of rebel Pancho Villa.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1920)
cout << endl <<“Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1924)
cout << endl <<“Death of Lenin; Stalin wins power struggle, rules as Soviet dictator until death in 1953.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1928)
cout << endl <<“Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1932)
cout << endl <<“Nazis lead in German elections with 230 Reichstag seats. ” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1936)
cout << endl <<“Spanish civil war begins.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1940)
cout << endl <<“Hitler invades Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1944)
cout << endl <<“Scientists at Harvard University construct the first automatic, general-purpose digital computer.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1948)
cout << endl <<“Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu militant (Jan. 30).” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1952)
cout << endl <<“George VI of England dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (Feb. 6).” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1956)
cout << endl <<“Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world’s first rock stars.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1960)
cout << endl <<“Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar, and Zaire (Belgian Congo) gain independence.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1964)
cout << endl <<“Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa (June 11).” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1968)
cout << endl <<“American soldiers massacre 347 civilians at My Lai.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1972)
cout << endl <<“Britain takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland in bid for peace.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1976)
cout << endl <<“19-month civil war ends in Lebanon after threatening to escalate to global level.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1980)
cout << endl <<“John Lennon of the Beatles shot dead in New York City.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1984)
cout << endl <<“Italy and Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as state religion.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1988)
cout << endl <<“NASA scientist James Hansen warns congress of the dangers of the global warming and the greenhouse effect” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1992)
cout << endl <<“Bush and Yeltsin proclaim a formal end to the Cold War ” << endl;
else if (year_info == 1996)
cout << endl <<“France agrees to end nuclear testing ” << endl;
else if (year_info == 2000)
cout << endl <<“Vicente Fox Quesada elected president of Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party” << endl;
else if (year_info == 2004)
cout << endl <<“Spain is rocked by terrorist attacks, killing more than 200.” << endl;
else if (year_info == 2008)
cout << endl <<“Cuban president Fidel Castro, who temporarily handed power to his brother Raúl in July 2006 when he fell ill, permanently steps down after 49 years in powe” << endl;
else if (year_info == 2012)
cout << endl <<“The UN General Assembly upgrades the status of the Palestinian Authority from current observer to non-member state. ” << endl;
else if (year_info == 2016)
cout << endl <<“Terrorist attacks on Belgium.” << endl;
else cout << “The year you provided is not within the list of leap years from 1900 to 2016” << endl;
}
int main(){
string ans, ans1, ans2, ans3, ans4, ans5, ans6, ans7;
string info, file_name;
int year, month, day, dow, lp, ll, year_info;
int leap_ar [] = {1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016};
cout << endl << “This program finds the day of the week (ex: Monday, Friday) of any date you provide.nYou can also create a text document with the date as a title andnwrite anything you want inside! ” << endl;
cout << endl << “Please feel free to try it!!” << endl ;
cout << endl << “Credit for the equation used in this program goes to:n http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/chrweek.php#calcdow” << endl;
cout << endl << “Credit for the info on leap years goes to http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html” << endl;
do{
do{
cout << endl << “Provide the year of the date you are looking for: ” << endl;
cin >> year;
cout << “Provide the month (in numbers) of the date you are looking for: ” << endl;
cin >> month;
cout << “Provide the day of the date you are looking for: ” << endl;
cin >> day;
if(month > 12 || day > 31 )
cout << endl << “Please make sure the value for month or day is correct” << endl;
int a = ((14 – month)/12);
int y = (year – a);
int m = (month + (12 *a) – 2);
dow = date_finder (y, m, day);
}
while (month > 12 || day > 31 ); //WHERE TO ADD ERROR MESSAGE
lp = leap_year (year);
dow; //Calling the function
if (dow == 0){
cout << endl << ” ATTENTION: The day you are looking for is a Sunday” << endl;
file_name = “sunday.txt”; //HOW TO ADD MONTH AND YEAR VARIABLES IN THE FILE NAME??
} else if (dow == 1){
cout << endl <<” ATTENTION: The day you are looking for is a Monday” << endl;
file_name = “monday.txt”;
} else if (dow == 2){
cout << endl <<” ATTENTION: The day you are looking for is a Tuesday” << endl;
file_name = “tuesday.txt”;
}else if (dow == 3){
cout << endl <<” ATTENTION: The day you are looking for is a Wednesday” << endl;
file_name = “wednesday.txt”;
}else if (dow == 4){
cout << endl <<” ATTENTION: The day you are looking for is a Thursday” << endl;
file_name = “thursday.txt”;
}else if (dow == 5){
cout << endl <<” ATTENTION: The day you are looking for is a Friday” << endl;
file_name = “friday.txt”;
}else if (dow == 6){
cout << endl <<” ATTENTION: The day you are looking for is a Saturday” << endl;
file_name = “saturday”;}
// if (lp == 1)
// ans3 = “”;
// else if (lp == 0)
// ans3 == “not”;
// cout << year << ” IS ” << ans3 << ” A LEAP YEAR” << endl;
// int n = 0;
// string hello = string(itoa(n))
//file_name = file_name + string(month) + day + year + “.txt”;
cout << endl << “Do you want to display a list of years from your chosen year to 100 years later?” << endl;
cin >> ans7;
if (ans7 == “yes”){
cout << endl << “THE FOLLOWING LIST DISPLAYS A LIST OF YEARSnFROM YOUR CHOSEN YEAR TO 100 YEARS LATER: ” << endl;
ll = leap_list (year);
}
do{
cout << endl << “Do you want to know cool info about a particular leap year? (From 1900 to 2016) (Write explicitly <yes> or <no>)” << endl;
cin >> ans2;
if (ans2 != “yes” && ans2 != “no”)
cout << endl << “Please answer yes or no, explicitly” << endl;
} while (ans2 != “yes” && ans2 != “no”);
if (ans2 == “yes”){
cout << endl << “Do you want to see a list of leap years from 1900 to 2016?” << endl;
cin >> ans5;
if (ans5 == “yes”){
for (int i = 0; i <= 28; i++){ //USE OF ARRAYS TO DISPLAY LIST OF LEAP YEARS
cout << endl << leap_ar [i] << endl;
}
}
do{
cout << endl << “Write the year you want information from: ” << endl;
cin >> year_info;
year_information (year_info);
cout << endl << “Do you want to try another year? ” << endl;
cin >> ans4;
}while (ans4 == “yes”);
}
do{
cout << endl << “Do you want to create a new document with this date as a title? (Write explicitly <yes> or <no>)” << endl;
cin >> ans;
if (ans != “yes” && ans2 != “no”)
cout << endl << “Please answer yes or no, explicitly” << endl;
} while (ans != “yes” && ans2 != “no”);
if (ans == “yes”){
cout << endl << “Do you want to name your file by a name yoy choose?” << endl;
cin >> ans6;
if (ans6 == “yes”){
cout << “How do you want to name your file? (.txt)”;
cin >> file_name;
}
cout << “What information do you want to write on the document? ” << file_name << “?” << endl;
cin >> info;
//getline (cin, info); FOR SOME REASON GETLINE IS NOT WORKING. WHY???
ofstream date_file (file_name.c_str()); //NAMES THE FILE
if (date_file.is_open()){
cout << endl << “A file with the information you provided was just created in this same directory” << endl;
} else
cout << “There was a problem creating the file” << endl;
date_file << info;
date_file.close();
} else
do {
cout << “Do you want to look for another date? ” << endl;
cin >> ans1;
if (ans1 != “yes” && ans2 != “no”)
cout << endl << “Please answer yes or no, explicitly” << endl;
} while (ans1 != “yes” && ans2 != “no”);
cout << endl << “Thanks for using this program!” << endl;
} while (ans1 == “yes”);
return 0;
}
PROJECT: DATE FINDER 1.0 by netosanchezb is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
