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AMANIKAI/WEEK2-IP

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software
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AMA
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This is a web application that takes a user's birthday and calculates the day of the week they were born and then depending on their gender outputs their Akan Name. Akan names are derived from Ghanian culture. Frequently in Ghana, children are given their first name as a 'day name' which corresponds to the day in the week they were born. # AMANI'S AKAN AGE CALCULATOR #### This project is about how to calculate a persons age, ### Version Date: 7th. Oct 2022 #### Author The author is **Amani Kai** ### Setup instructions -Git clone github.com -Open the code with VScode -Go live ## Description This is a web application that takes a user's birthday and calculates the day of the week they were born and then depending on their gender outputs their Akan Name. Akan names are derived from Ghanian culture. Frequently in Ghana, children are given their first name as a 'day name' which corresponds to the day in the week they were born. Here are Ghanian day names. ### Male Sunday: Kwasi Monday: Kwadwo Tuesday: Kwabena Wednesday: Kwaku Thursday: Yaw Friday: Kofi Saturday: Kwame ### Female Sunday: Akosua Monday: Adwoa Tuesday: Abenaa Wednesday: Akua Thursday: Yaa Friday: Afua Saturday: Ama ### Live link The live link is at amanikai.github.io ### Most people do know when their birthdays are, but some might not know what day of the week they were born. Luckily for us, there are ways to calculate the day of the week from a specific date. The following is one of the many methods that exist for that; Day of the week (d) = ( ( (CC/4) -2*CC-1) + ((5*YY/4) ) + ((26*(MM+1)/10)) + DD ) mod 7 where; CC - is the century digits. For example 1989 has CC = 19 YY - is the Year digits (1989 has YY = 89) MM - is the Month DD - is the Day of the month mod - is the modulus function ( % ) ## BDD ### As a user, you will be able like to; -See a small description of what the application does on the landing page. -Enter your birthday through a prompt -Choose what gender you are. Click the submit button to see what your Akan name would be ## Technologies Used JAVASCRIPT HTML BOOTSTRAPS CSS CODE FORMATTED VIA PRETTIER AND TYPESCRIPT/JAVASCRIPT JUMBOTRON ## Support and contact details If you need any assistance on any issues or have questions, ide …