The Akan naming system
The Akan naming system is derived from the Ghana people who frequently name their children according to the day of birth they were born. Here is a list of the days corresponding with the names; DATE;7/3/2022
DAY
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY
MALE
KWASI, KWADO, KWABENA, KWAKU, YAW, KOFI, KWAME
FEMALE
AKOSUA, ADWOA, ABENAA, AKUA, YUA, AFUA, AMA
Michael Njenga (software developer)
this application is designed to take the users input as the date of birth (yyyy/mm/dd) the app then calculates the day of the week they were born and give the feedback on the actual days of birth corresponding with the Akan name as listed in the table.
On calculation of the day, the formulae used is ; dw=(((cc/4)-2cc-1)+((5yy/4)+((26*(mm+1)/10))+dd)% 7
keyword; dw- the day of the week. cc-century number (1995 where 19 is the century number) yy-the year (1995 where 95 is the year) mm-this is the month. Dd-this the date of the month. % - this it the modulus
though the app is running ,at times it might not give the actual day of birth due to the leap year concept that has not been considered while doing the calculations. Thus this will need an upgrade in future for actual birth days
Basically the app is build on the HTML and CSS languages that have been enhanced by the use of BOOTSRAP styling that makes the page more responsive and user friendly.
the app is not well finished and will require more styling and additional code to finish it up to produce the results as expected,thus any help on making the app more convenient and additional ideas are welcome. Please fill free to contact me on ; email;[email protected] Facebook; mickynduch contact; 0715745304