Thread: Basic Java Program Help

Need help with a java program assignment for school. Here is the problem:

We are all looking forward to retiring someday. Assuming we will retire on our 65th birthday, write a Java program that prompts the user for his/her birthday month, day, and year and then prints out the date the user will retire.

I am having trouble calculating when the user will turn 65. Here is what I have so far:

package com.mime.project1;
 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class Assign2 {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Scanner stdIn = new Scanner(System.in);
 
int month, day, year;
 
System.out.print("Enter the month you were born: ");
month = stdIn.nextInt();
System.out.print("Enter the day you were born: ");
day = stdIn.nextInt();
System.out.print("Enter the year you were born: ");
year = stdIn.nextInt();
 
 
	}
 
}

Hint:

Say you were born the year 0. What year would you be 65?
Now say your friend was born year 1. What year would they be 65?

Now how do you generalize this to someone born year y?

Originally Posted by Mr.777

@neeraj0708: If you would just spend few minutes to read Forums Rules, you will come to know that spoon feeding is not allowed.

Request to Admin or Moderators: Kindly ban such users who try to spoon feed as they don't even bother to read forums rules or create a test to get successful registration on the forums and test must contain all the forums rules.

The user has been warned accordingly and deleted their thread on their own.

Originally Posted by Mr.777

@neeraj0708: If you would just spend few minutes to read Forums Rules, you will come to know that spoon feeding is not allowed.

Request to Admin or Moderators: Kindly ban such users who try to spoon feed as they don't even bother to read forums rules or create a test to get successful registration on the forums and test must contain all the forums rules.

The Java Programming Forums are a community of Java programmers from all around the World. Our members have a wide range of skills and they all have one thing in common: A passion to learn and code Java. We invite beginner Java programmers right through to Java professionals to post here and share your knowledge. Become a part of the community, help others, expand your knowledge of Java and enjoy talking with like minded people.

How am I supposed to gain knowledge through this forum? "We invite beginner Java programmers right through to Java professionals to post here and share your knowledge." I'm sorry I don't know as much as you about programming Java, as I only started 2 weeks ago. Am I not allowed to ask for help on certain things? Why is information so privy? What's so bad about asking for some help? Maybe I shouldn't have said it was for school. Anyways, I'm disappointed in this forum. I guess when I get to your level of expertise in Java, I know I shouldn't try and help a beginner out, or point him in a kind direction...

Dear Nuggets, you may have misunderstood the above ruckus as being directed towards you - it was not. Rather it was directed towards a member who was doing what is called 'spoon-feeding' (and whose post was subsequently deleted), which is against forum rules:

Providing homework solutions in full or in part is frowned upon, and contributions that are considered as such will be subject to moderation (editing and/or deletion)

The following article should give you an idea as to why this rule exists

The Problem with Spoon-feeding

This thread has been slightly pushed off course...lets please stay on topic. Its not to deny anyone their piece of mind, but in the effort to keep the forums organized please start a new thread for discussion not related to the original topic.

Nuggets, I am not sure if your problem that started this thread has been solved or not. If so, please mark the thread as solved, otherwise please update this thread with the appropriate information/questions/etc...

Given I have had to move several posts out of this thread to their own, I am locking this thread. Nuggets, apologies and if your question has yet to be answered please start another thread. Others, if you feel the need to discuss please start another thread.