Thread: Vacation Switch

These are my program requrements:

1. Create a program that asks the user to choose a number from 1 - 5.
2. Using a switch statement, assign a vacation package to each number.
3. Display a congratulations message which includes the vacation package information.
4. Display a message to prompt the user to enter the first name, last name, and age of four guests using a for loop which will create a list of the four guests.
5. Prompt the user to enter a departure date.
6. Display the congratulations message, guest list, and the departure date.

I have been able to do steps 1 - 4 but have been unable to correctly program steps 5 - 6. The problems I am having are listed in order below.

5. I can't figure out how to get the entire departure date to print out i.e. "July 1, 2013". Instead it only prints out "July".
6. I can't figure out how to get the congratulations message from the switch statement to be displayed a second time at the end of my code.

So far my code is as follows:

 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class MidTerm
{
  public static void main(String[]args)
  {
    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
 
    String vacationNumber;
    int count;
    String guest;
    String fName;
    String lName;
    String age;
    String list = "";
    String date;
 
//*************************************************
    System.out.print("Enter a number between 1 - 5 ");
    vacationNumber = keyboard.nextLine();
 
    switch (vacationNumber.charAt (0))
    {
    case  '1':
    System.out.println("Congragulations! You won a three day Cruise to the Bahamas!");
    break;
    case  '2':
    System.out.println("Congragulations! You won a three day Cruise to the Caribbean!");
    break;
    case  '3':
    System.out.println("Congragulations! You won a three day trip to New York City!");
    break;
    case  '4':
    System.out.println("Congragulations! You won a three day trip to Hawaii!");
    break;
    case  '5':
    System.out.println("Sorry! You won a four month trip to Afghanistan!");
    break;
    }
    for(count = 1; count <= 4; count++)
    {
      System.out.print("Enter the first name of guest # " + count +":");
      fName = keyboard.next();
      list = list + fName + "\t";
      System.out.println();
 
      System.out.print("Enter the last name of guest # " + count +":");
      lName = keyboard.next();
      list = list + lName + "\t";
      System.out.println();
 
      System.out.print("Enter the age of guest # " + count +":");
      age = keyboard.next();
      list = list + age + "\n";
      System.out.println();
    }
    System.out.print("Please enter a departure date");
    date = keyboard.next();
 
    System.out.print(list + "\n");
    System.out.print(date);
  }
}

Originally Posted by Program83

5. I can't figure out how to get the entire departure date to print out i.e. "July 1, 2013". Instead it only prints out "July".

This part of the code seems to be missing. Be sure to include the code exactly as it is during testing.

Originally Posted by Program83

6. I can't figure out how to get the congratulations message from the switch statement to be displayed a second time at the end of my code.

You will have to store the message in a variable with a large enough scope to cover both uses of it. Search keywords java and scope to find more details.