CSCI-UA.0002
Summer Session II

Python Assignment 2
Due: Thursday, July 12th

PART ONE:

Your program will be able to tell an NYU student whether s/he will have the day off for any given day during the academic year 2011-2012. (This is per the official NYU Calendar: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/2011-12/Undergraduate/calendar) These are the following NYU Holidays that you should account for during the Academic year 2011-2012:

• 9/5 (2011) Labor Day
• 10/10-10/11 Academic Holiday
• 11/24- Thurs. - Sat. November 26 -- Thanksgiving
• Winter recess December 24 (2011) - Jan. 21 (2012)
• Presidents' Day: February 20
• Spring recess Mon. - Sat. March 12 - 17
• Memorial Day: May 28
• Independence Day: Monday, July 4
• August 11 - September 3 (2012): summer recess

Here is how it should work: First, you should prompt the user to enter an integer for the month and an integer for the day in question. (For example, entering "2" for the month and "20" for the day would represent February 20th.). (Note that we start the year on Sept.5 - that should be assumed to be 2011. Note that we END the year on Sept. 3 - that should be assumed to be 2012. Note that Sept. 4th this coming academic year isn't a possible choice!)

• The program will tell the student if that day is a University holiday and if so, which one, by printing out a message such as:

"February 20 is Presidents Day".

• If the day selected is not a holiday, the program should print out a message such as:

"February 18 is not a school holiday at NYU."

Hints:

• The program should check to be sure that the month and day that the student enters are valid and tell the user if they are not. For example, "April 31" is not a valid entry.
• The program should make sure that the user provides a date within the correct range (09/05/11 - 09/03/12) and tell the user if they picked a date outside of the dates under consideration.
• Some NYU vacations stretch out over multiple days.
• Your program should make sure that the numbers that you work with are integers.

Notes about your program:

• Make sure your program includes a comment at the beginning with your name along with a brief synopsis of the program.
• You should use comments throughout the source code to explain key steps and calculations.
• Choose intuitive names for variables
• You should use blank lines where appropriate to make your program easy to read.
• Make sure that your program does not contain any syntax errors.
• Test your program to be sure that it runs the way that you expect.

PART TWO:

• When you are done and have tested it, post your source file "smithjoe_assign2.py" to Blackboard.