Building a recurring events generator

A very common need related to generating a calendar is the scheduling of events. Events can be in the form of one-off events, which take place on one day, or on a weekend. There is a much greater need, however, to track events that are recurring. We need to account for the start date, the recurring interval (daily, weekly, monthly), and the number of occurrences or a specific end date.

How to do it...

  1. Before anything else, it would be an excellent idea to create a class that represents an event. Ultimately you'll probably end up storing the data in such a class in a database. For this illustration, however, we will simply define the class, and leave the database aspect to your imagination. You will notice that ...

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