can anyone help me with a homework assignment

[drtucker]

i have a homework assignment asking me to pick the highest and lowest number out of a group of 4 numbers? How would i set that up?

[Ancient Dragon]

you need two variable -- highest and lowest. Initialize them to be the value of the first array element. Next code a loop to count from 1 to the number of items in the array, then test each array element against those two variables, and change the variable value to be the array element when appropriate.

[plgriffith]

Finding the largest and smallest numbers in a set using "if" statements is normally a horrible idea, but if the size is only 4 then I would recommend some "if"s.

smallest = values[0];
largest = values[0];
for(i = 0; i < 4; i++)
   {
      if(values[i] > largest)
           largest = values[i];
      else if(values[i] < smallest)
           smallest = values[i];
   }