Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (3rd Edition)
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Author: Elizabeth A. Stephan, David R. Bowman, William J. Park, Benjamin L. Sill, Matthew W. Ohland
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Write an input statement to ask the user to type the current month.
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