Calendar Formatting

[Bazkip]

To start, I should state that I'm a first year Computer Science student so there's a high chance I've done something stupid

Anywho,
I've got an assignment to display a calendar given an input of month and year in Java.
The output is supposed to look like this

		March 2012

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   30   31

I've got the code to calculate the number of days in a month. Making it display the month, year and days is easy, and I've also got it properly formatted so it starts numbering at the correct first day of the month.

But I haven't got the slightest clue how to format the rest of the numbers so they correctly fall in line within the calendar :v:

My current code for the output is this

    public static void displayMonthlyCalendar (int year, int month)
    {
        String monthName, spacing;
        int days, ctr = 2;

        monthName = monthName (month);
        System.out.println ("\t   " + monthName + " " + year);
        System.out.println ("\nSun  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat");
        spacing = determineFirstDaySpacing (year, month);
        System.out.print (spacing);
        days = determineNumberOfDaysInMonth (year, month);
        while (ctr <= days)
        {
            System.out.print ("    " + ctr);
            ctr++;
        }
    }//end displayMonthlyCalendar()

But that doesn't exactly work, gives me output like this

           March 2012

Sun  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat
                    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10 etc.

Help?

[Jookia]

You could run "cal <month> <year>" to get a calendar externally.

[Bazkip]

[QUOTE=Jookia;33216266]You could run "cal <month> <year>" to get a calendar externally.[/QUOTE]

I know, but our teacher isn't going to let us do that.

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=Bazkip;33216290]I know, but our teacher isn't going to let us do that.[/QUOTE]

If the assignment is to [I]display[/I] a calender, why not think outside the box?

Anyway, keep a variable of which position you're up to horizontally, so in your example it'd be Thursday, which is position 4. Once the position reaches 8, set it to 1 and go down a line.

[Bazkip]

[QUOTE=Jookia;33216357]If the assignment is to [I]display[/I] a calender, why not think outside the box?

Anyway, keep a variable of which position you're up to horizontally, so in your example it'd be Thursday, which is position 4. Once the position reaches 8, set it to 1 and go down a line.[/QUOTE]

There's more to the assignment than just display the calendar, there's specific things we need to do. And I'm almost certain my teacher would outright fail me if I did that.

As for the second part, I have no idea what that means :v:

[Jookia]

Mentally label the columns 0-7. Start a counter at the appropriate column (so, 4 for Thursday), then increment each time you add a new number. When you go over 7, insert a line break and reset the counter to 0. That way you'll start at the first column.

[Bazkip]

[QUOTE=Jookia;33216478]Mentally label the columns 0-7. Start a counter at the appropriate column (so, 4 for Thursday), then increment each time you add a new number. When you go over 7, insert a line break and reset the counter to 0. That way you'll start at the first column.[/QUOTE]

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35476992/Monthcalendar.png[/img]

VICTORY! :dance: