Corning Community College
CSCS1320 C/C++ Programming
To begin our exploration of programming, starting with an investigation into the various data types available in C, along with their properties, and collaboratively authoring and documenting the project and its specifications.
To assist with consistency across all implementations, data files for use with this project are available on lab46 via the grabit tool. Be sure to obtain it and ensure your implementation properly works with the provided data.
lab46:~/src/SEMESTER/DESIG$ grabit DESIG PROJECT
Your task is to write a program that performs the mental math technique of determining what day of the week January 1st falls on for any year in the 21st century.
Contributing to project documentation is also a core part of this project. If from reading the existing documentation or through your own exploring, you find something lacking, unclear, or outright missing, that is an opportunity to potentially contribute content.
You want the project documentation to provide you (as if coming in with no awareness of the project) with sufficient information so as to allow you to proceed. Asking questions on the discord is a great way of getting more information that you can use to add content.
You will want to go here to edit and fill in the various sections of the document:
You need to create a program that will calculate exactly what day of the week will be on January 1st for the entire century. To do this there are simple methods for the math behind the calculations, You can find an example here https://www.almanac.com/how-find-day-week
To verify your code, there is a program in the project files, named “dow0verify”. This will run through your program, inputting each year from 2000 - 2099 to check if your output is correct.
For each line, the program will give you the following:
At the end, the verification program will tell you how which years your output did not match, and it will give you a final score of how many years you got right.
NOTE: Your Raspberry pi is a 32-bit system. Due to memory limitations and how computers handle time and dates, the verification program will NOT work on your pi past the year 2038. You will have to run it on lab46, which is 64-bit.
You can use this program to verify that your code gives the right answers, as well outputting that answer in the correct way.
To be successful in this project, the following criteria (or their equivalent) must be met:
Let's say you have completed work on the project, and are ready to submit, you would do the following (assuming you have a program called uom0.c):
lab46:~/src/SEMESTER/DESIG/PROJECT$ make submit
You should get some sort of confirmation indicating successful submission if all went according to plan. If not, check for typos and or locational mismatches.
I'll be evaluating the project based on the following criteria:
39:dow0:final tally of results (39/39) *:dow0:used grabit to obtain project by the Sunday prior to duedate [6/6] *:dow0:clean compile, no compiler messages [7/7] *:dow0:program conforms to project specifications [20/20] *:dow0:code tracked in lab46 semester repo [6/6]