Write a matlab:

How many days are there until winter break?

To answer this, write a matlab function that works for any day of 2017. Count the days from today until winter break on Dec 12, and display the result. This breaks into 3 counts:

1) The days remaining in the current month

2) The days in the months between now and Dec (there are none now that it's Nov, but make this work for any month).

3) The days in Dec

Be careful though, this breaks down once you get to Dec, so use logic statements to deal with this.

Hints:

1) The matlab command

today = clock;

creates a six element array with the current date and time stored across a single row:

today = [year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds]

2) First solve the question assuming it is Nov. Then add code to account for other months. That way, you'll have the basic structure down and even if you can't figure out the rest, you will get credit.

3) Start with the following Matlab code:

function winterbreak

breakmon = 12;

breakday = 10;

% The number of days in each calendar month (ignore leap year)

monthdays = [31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31];

% Use clock to get the current year month and day

% use logic to check if we are in breakmon (December) already

% add up the days for each of the 3 cases described above

% disp the result

end