For some reason Im having a problem passing the value of n out of the
getEasterSundayDay() method.
If I do a return n in the getEasterSundayDay() method I get the month value
correctly.  But when use n in the switch statement it comes back a 0
everytime and returning emonth comes back as "Error3"..any ideas?..thanks

Ive been told this is the reason but I dont understand:

The problem is occurring because you are setting the day instance value when
you call the getEasterSundayDay() method.  However, you are attempting to
use the value in the getEasterSundayMonth() method BEFORE it has been set by
the day method.

You should calculate the month and day in the object's constructor and set
the instance data to these known values in the constructor (before anyone
else has a change to call any of the accessor methods).  This will prevent
this kind of problem from happening.

Heres my code:

//Main Class
import cs1.Keyboard;

public class Assignment1_Master
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int year;
do
{
EasterSunday es = new EasterSunday();
System.out.print("Determine Easter Sunday for what year:");
year = Keyboard.readInt();
es.setEasterSundayYear( year);
if (year > 0)
System.out.println("In " + es.getEasterSundayYear() + " Easter Sunday
falls/fell on " + es.getEasterSundayMonth() + ", " + es.getEasterSundayDay()
+ ".");
else
System.out.println ("Goodbye!");
}while(year > 0);
}
}
//Secondary Class
public class EasterSunday
{
private int y;
//Initialized to "Error1" for debugging if n is not properly passed from
getEasterSundayDay()
private String emonth = "Error1";
private int n;
public void setEasterSundayYear( int year)
{
y = year;
}
public int getEasterSundayYear()
{
//Returns the year entered by the User
return y;
}
public int getEasterSundayDay()
{
//Implementation of the Gauss algorithm
int a = y % 19;
int b = y / 100;
int c = y % 100;
int d = b/4;
int e = b % 4;
int g = (8 * b + 13 )/25;
int h = (19 * a + b - d - g + 15 )%30;
int j = c / 4;
int k = c % 4;
int m = (a + 11 * h) / 319;
int r = (2 * e + 2 * j - k - h + m + 32) % 7;
n = (h - m + r + 90) / 25;
int p = (h - m + r + n + 19) % 32;
//Returns the day that Easter falls on that year
return p;
}
public String getEasterSundayMonth()
{
//Assigns a month name according to the value of n
switch (n)
{
case 0: emonth= "Error3"; break;
case 1: emonth="January"; break;
case 2: emonth ="February"; break;
case 3: emonth ="March"; break;
case 4: emonth ="April"; break;
case 5: emonth ="May"; break;
case 6: emonth ="June"; break;
case 7: emonth ="July"; break;
case 8: emonth ="August"; break;
case 9: emonth ="September"; break;
case 10: emonth ="October"; break;
case 11: emonth ="November"; break;
case 12: emonth ="December"; break;
}
return emonth;
}
}