I'm currently doing a problem set where I have to create a calendar displaying all the months of a year, including the days of the month within it. However I'm having issues with the spacing of the first line of each month. In class we have only learned switch statements, if, else, while, do-while, for loops
Here is what is currently displayed for one of my months:
Image of output In the picture is doesn't show my inputs, but what I wrote was 2016 for the year and 5 for the weekday that the year starts in.
Image of output of what what is desired Again, a picture of what is desired. I think my problem is possibly the equation I used which is: int firstDayEachMonth = (daysMonth + firstDayYear)%7; though the teacher gave this equation to us to use, but it seems like it doesn't work.
As you can see the spaces on the first line is all the way to the left, it should be aligned with the designated dates, in this case for January, Jan 1st should align on Friday and Jan 2nd should align with Saturday but it is currently on Sunday and Monday.
import java.util.Scanner;
public class DisplayCalendar
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
//Create a new scanner
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
// Prompt user to enter year
System.out.print("Enter a year: ");
int year = input.nextInt();
// Prompt user to enter first day of the year
System.out.print("Enter the weekday that the year starts: ");
int firstDayYear = input.nextInt();
// A for loop that prints out each month
for(int month = 1; month <= 12; month++)
{
// Set the value of the amount of days in a month
int daysMonth = 0;
// Set value of the month
String monthDisplay = "";
// Find name of each month and number of days
switch(month)
{
case 1: monthDisplay = "January";
daysMonth = 31;
break;
case 2:
monthDisplay = "February";
int leapYear = 0;
while (leapYear > -1)
{
// Count all years that are divisible by 4 to be a leap year.
leapYear += 4;
// If the year inputted is a leap year, the days of the month will be 29.
if (year == leapYear)
{
daysMonth = 29;
break;
}
else
{
daysMonth = 28;
}
}
break;
case 3: monthDisplay = "March";
daysMonth = 31;
break;
case 4: monthDisplay = "April";
daysMonth = 30;
break;
case 5: monthDisplay = "May";
daysMonth = 31;
break;
case 6: monthDisplay = "June";
daysMonth = 30;
break;
case 7: monthDisplay = "July";
daysMonth = 31;
break;
case 8: monthDisplay = "August";
daysMonth = 31;
break;
case 9: monthDisplay = "September";
daysMonth = 30;
break;
case 10: monthDisplay = "October";
daysMonth = 31;
break;
case 11: monthDisplay = "November";
daysMonth = 30;
break;
case 12: monthDisplay = "December";
daysMonth = 31;
break;
// If the month is not recognized, dialog box will be displayed, and then exits program.
default : System.out.print("Invalid: Your month is not recognized. ");
System.exit(0);
}
// Display the month and year
System.out.println(" "+ monthDisplay + " " + year);
// Display the lines
System.out.println("_____________________________________");
// Display the days of the week
System.out.println("Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat");
// Print spaces depending on the day the month starts.
int firstDayEachMonth = (daysMonth + firstDayYear)%7;
for (int space = 1; space <= firstDayEachMonth; space++)
System.out.print(" ");
// Print the days
for (int daysDisplay = 1; daysDisplay <= daysMonth; daysDisplay++)
{
if (firstDayYear%7 == 0)
System.out.println();
System.out.printf("%3d ", daysDisplay);
firstDayYear += 1;
}
System.out.println();
}
}
}
We can't use the different libraries (like Calendar), only keeping with scanner.
Can you try this example? I can see the following output:
February 2016
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29
package general;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class DisplayCalendar {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int Y = 2016; // year
int startDayOfMonth = 5;
int spaces = startDayOfMonth;
// startDayOfMonth
// months[i] = name of month i
String[] months = {
"", // leave empty so that we start with months[1] = "January"
"January", "February", "March",
"April", "May", "June",
"July", "August", "September",
"October", "November", "December"
};
// days[i] = number of days in month i
int[] days = {
0, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31
};
for (int M = 1; M <= 12; M++) {
// check for leap year
if ((((Y % 4 == 0) && (Y % 100 != 0)) || (Y % 400 == 0)) && M == 2)
days[M] = 29;
// print calendar header
// Display the month and year
System.out.println(" "+ months[M] + " " + Y);
// Display the lines
System.out.println("_____________________________________");
System.out.println(" Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat");
// spaces required
spaces = (days[M-1] + spaces)%7;
// print the calendar
for (int i = 0; i < spaces; i++)
System.out.print(" ");
for (int i = 1; i <= days[M]; i++) {
System.out.printf(" %3d ", i);
if (((i + spaces) % 7 == 0) || (i == days[M])) System.out.println();
}
System.out.println();
}
}
}