C++ Help trying to get my footing in my class :(

You haven't been suddenly thrown in the water to swim, after living in the desert for your entire life, so the question is what have you been doing on your classes until now? :)

Start coding it (the task is very clear) and let's see where and why you get stuck.

Not gonna do your work for you but I'll give you a brief overview of what you have to do here.

1) Design a class, say Month. Should Look something like this:
class Month { int month_id; };

//Good idea to design a constructor too.

Month(int month);

//Some Methods

int getMonth(); int setMonth();

2) Design a method(for the class) to increment the months. Something like this.

void Month::advance(int inc_num) { } // where inc_num is the value by which you want to increment the month of the class.
void Month::advance() { } // Overloaded method without Arguments to increment by 1.

3) Now, we want months in a String notation too. For this, simply overload the methods you've created previously to use character arrays. Create a logic to associate the Strings to int. For instance, 1 means JAN, 2 means FEB, etc.

You might get better results if you ask a question on stackoverflow

Find a sample on online and modify that add things you need.

Overloading might be a keyword in some cases...

First, design the public interface of your class. Do not try to implement it. Just provide empty public functions. You can then try implementing them one by one. For example, implement a parser first that can take a string and deduct the month from it. You can do it the naive way first, like:

if (month = "aug" or month == "august") ...

You can fix bugs and optimize later (like converting to lower-case first before comparing, putting all strings in a vector for easier lookup, etc.)

Your interface should probably look something like this:

class Month {
public:
  explicit Month(int month);
  explicit Month(std::string month);
  int getMonth() const;
  bool operator< (const Month month) const;
  bool operator> (const Month month) const;
  bool operator== (const Month month) const;
  void print() const;
};

Edit: this forum messes up "<" and ">" in code blocks. The above are supposed to be "operator<" and "operator>".

What should the functions "input()" and "output()" do, compared to "setMonth()" and "getMonth()"?

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