Question

Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. To compute the date, you can use this algorithm, invented by the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1800:
1. Let y be the year (such as 1800 or 2001).
2. Divide y by 19 and call the remainder a. Ignore the quotient.
3. Divide y by 100 to get a quotient b and a remainder c.
4. Divide b by 4 to get a quotient d and a remainder e.
5. Divide 8 * b 13 by 25 to get a quotient g. Ignore the remainder.
6. Divide 19 * a b - d - g 15 by 30 to get a remainder h. Ignore the quotient.
7. Divide c by 4 to get a quotient j and a remainder k.
8. Divide a 11 * h by 319 to get a quotient m. Ignore the remainder.
9. Divide 2 * e 2 * j - k - h m 32 by 7 to get a remainder r. Ignore the quotient.
10. Divide h - m r 90 by 25 to get a quotient n. Ignore the remainder.
11. Divide h - m r n 19 by 32 to get a remainder p. Ignore the quotient.
Then Easter falls on day p of month n. For example, if y is 2001:
a = 6 h = 18 n = 4
b = 20, c = 1 j = 0, k = 1 p = 15
d = 5, e = 0 m = 0
g = 6 r = 6
Therefore, in 2001, Easter Sunday fell on April 15. Write a program that prompts the user for a year and prints out the month and day of Easter Sunday.
Part 1: Problem-Solving Phase
Using the Design Recipe, write each of the following for this problem:
Contract
Purpose Statement
Examples, making sure to include counter-examples
Algorithm (based on the above algorithm, completed with input/output steps)
Make sure to test your algorithm by hand with the examples to verify it before continuing to Part 2.
Part 2: Implementation Phase
Using Eclipse, write the Java program for the algorithm formulated in Part 1, and test your program with the examples from Part 1.
Make sure to incorporate your Contract, Purpose Statement and Examples as one or more comment blocks, and your Algorithm as line comments in your Java source code.

Answer 1

Answer:

The program written in Java without comment is as follows

import java.util.*;

public class MyClass {

   public static void main(String args[]) {

       Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

       System.out.print("Year: ");

       int y = input.nextInt();

       int a = y%19;

       System.out.println("a = "+a);

       int b = y / 100;

       System.out.println("b = "+b);

       int c = y%100;

       System.out.println("c = "+c);

       int d = b / 4;

       System.out.println("d = "+d);

       int e = b%4;

       System.out.println("e = "+e);

       int g = (8 * b + 13)/25;

       System.out.println("g = "+g);

       int h = (19 * a + b - d - g + 15)%30;

       System.out.println("h = "+h);

       int j = c/4;

       System.out.println("j = "+j);

       int k = c%4;

       System.out.println("k = "+k);

       int m = (a + 11 * h)/319;

       System.out.println("m = "+m);

       int r = (2 * e + 2 * j - k - h + m + 32)%7;

       System.out.println("r = "+r);

       int n = (h - m + r + 90)/25;

       System.out.println("n = "+n);

       int p = (h - m + r + n + 19)%32;

       System.out.println("p = "+p);

   }

}

Explanation:

I've added the full source code as an attachment where I use comments to explain difficult lines

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