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Challenge: Strings, dates, and parsing

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Challenge: Strings, dates, and parsing

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- [Narrator] For this code challenge, you'll work with strings, dates, and parsing string values. The program aims to attain two pieces of input from the user and calculate a new date based on those values. You can build your app as a console or as a WPF application. The idea is to obtain two values from the user, a starting date, which will serve as the base for calculations. Also, you'll get an interval value, which is a numeric input indicating how many days and months to add to the starting date. Validate that the input values are correct, the user could enter the word yellow for the interval value. That is not acceptable. Do not allow non date or number values. Use the interval value to calculate a new date by adding days and months. For example, consider a scenario where the starting date is June 5th, 2000 and the interval value provided by the user is five. The program will interpret this interval as adding five days and five months to the starting date, starting from June 5th,…

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