For assignment #2, choose one of the following. You may want to look over both of them before choosing. (If you don't like choosing, you must pick the first assignment!)

1. The "Zodiac" program. In this assignment, you write a program that takes in a birthdate and prints out the corresponding Zodiac sign and birthstone. This is a fairly straight-forward problem involving no math.

2. The "Newton's Method" program. Write a program that uses Newton's Method to find roots of functions. This is a good engineering/science assignment, and is probably a little harder conceptually than the first choice.