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[goldengold]

I want to make a simple console app where you type your date of birth and it will tell you your zodiac sign.

This will be the first program i ever try to make so ill need a lot of help. I've read books and watched some tutorials but people say the best way to learn programming is to go ahead and start on a project thats simple.

So can anyone give me any tips on how i would start this application?

[HomerSexual]

The first step in any program is to figure out HOW you want to do something, the ideas and not the actual programming. I guess to go about this I would keep two parallel arrays, one with ranges of dates in order and another with the signs that these ranges represent.

So you would need a method that takes the input and finds out which range in array 1 it falls in. Then that position in array 2 is the sign.

[AhMunRa]

Also keep in mind certain dates within the Zodiac are on the cusp and are associated with more than 1 sign.

[HomerSexual]

In that case just use a linear search to find all of the ranges that it falls into (inclusive to catch the edges) and return all of the positions. Then, you have all of your signs