we got a tiny menu which is helpful for the rest of project. i also a…

…dded the link to the schedule. now we need to make it clean and pretty such as the grade page

jceDates.cpp

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+#include "jceDates.h"
+#include <sstream> //to_string function
+
+template <typename T>
+std::string to_string(T value)
+{
+	std::ostringstream os;
+	os << value;
+	return os.str();
+}
+jceDates::jceDates()
+{
+	//defaul choises.
+	this->fSemester = "0";
+	this->fYear = "2010";
+	this->tSemester = "2";
+	this->tYear = "2014";
+}
+void jceDates::setDate()
+{
+	int fy,fs,ty,ts;
+	while (true) {
+		system("clear");
+		std::cout << "\n----------------jce API alpha----------------" << std::endl;
+		std::cout << "\tplease specify the date" << std::endl;
+		std::cout << "\t\tFrom year: ";
+		std::cin >> fy;
+		std::cout << "\t\tFrom semester: ";
+		std::cin >> fs;
+		std::cout << "\t\tTo year: ";
+		std::cin >> ty;
+		std::cout << "\t\tTo semester: ";
+		std::cin >> ts;
+		if (!(checkSemesterInput(ts) && checkSemesterInput(fs) 
+			&& checkYearInput(fy) && checkYearInput(ty)))
+			printf("your input is out of range.\n please try again.");
+		else
+		{
+			this->fSemester = to_string(fs);
+			this->fYear = to_string(fy);
+			this->tSemester = to_string(ts);
+			this->tYear = to_string(ty);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+bool jceDates::checkSemesterInput(int num)
+{
+	if ((num > 3) || (num < 0)) //out of semester range
+		return false;
+	return true;
+}
+bool jceDates::checkYearInput(int num)
+{
+	if ((num > 2020) || (num < 2000)) //out of year range
+		return false;
+	return true;
+
+}

jceDates.h

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+#ifndef JCE_DATES_H
+#define JCE_DATES_H
+
+#include <iostream>
+
+class jceDates
+{
+	public:
+	jceDates();
+	~jceDates() {};
+	void setDate();
+	std::string getFYear() { return this->fYear;}
+	std::string getTYear() { return this->tYear;}
+	std::string getFSemester() { return this->fSemester;}
+	std::string getTSemester() { return this->tSemester;}
+
+	private:
+		std::string fYear; //from
+		std::string fSemester;
+
+		std::string tYear; //to
+		std::string tSemester;
+
+		bool checkSemesterInput(int);
+		bool checkYearInput(int);
+
+
+};
+
+#endif