Pls Help - First code ever!

[effizy]

Hello all,

I am completely new to c++ and have no idea what am doing or should be doing but am ready to learn. My first problem is to write a code "to calculate average score of uncertain numbers of student and the output should be (number of students,total points and average)".

This is what i have so far, have been on this for over 12hrs and i just don't know what to do anymore - any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank-you much.
Effizy.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

   int count, score;
   float average=0.0;
   count=0
   int numTimesNeeded = [];
   int total=0;
   while ( count < numTimesNeeded ) 
   
int main()
{
    cout <<"***************** Score Calculator 1.0 *****************"<<endl;    
    cout <<"Welcome!"<< endl;
    cout <<"This program computes the average score of students"<<endl;    
    cout <<"You supply the data on: the number of students and score for each student"<<endl;
    cout <<"The program will compute the total and average score for you."<<endl;      
    cout <<"**********************************************************"<< endl;
    cout <<"Let's get to work ..." << endl;
    cout <<"Enter the score for test " << count + 1 << ": ";
           cin >> score;
           total += score;
           count++; 
   {
           average = float(total) / numTimesNeeded;
    cout <<"The average of the " << numTimesNeeded << " test scores is:" << average <<   endl;  
    
   }

    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

[bleedi]

There's quite a few problems there.

int count, score;
float average=0.0;
count=0
int numTimesNeeded = [];
int total=0;
while ( count < numTimesNeeded )

These shouldn't be outside main(). Every line of code should end with ';', and - as you might notice - the line with "count=0" should be "count=0;".

Do you have an idea how to use "while"-loops? Your way isn't right at all, let me demonstrate:

int main() {
  int num_students = 0;
  double total = 0.0;
  double avg = 0.0;
  double tempscore = 0.0;

  while(tempscore != -1) {
    cout << "Give a score (-1 will quit): " << endl;
    cin >> tempscore;
    if(tempscore != -1) {
      total += tempscore;
      ++num_students;
      avg = total / num_students;
    }
  }

  cout << "Average score is: " << avg << endl;

  return 0;
}

[effizy]

Thanks alot Bleedi,very grateful for the response.Per your question - NO i do not know how to use while loop or what it means for that matter, this is my first ever encounter with C++. Its all completely new to me. What you see here is just a figment of my own imagination - didn't wanna show up here without any effort from my end. What should my train of thought be exactly on this problem?

[bleedi]

Well, I suggest you start checking out all the things you have a slightest concern not knowing or understanding about. Start by studying the basic concepts of program structures, then going more in-depth to understand different loops (while, do-while, for) etc.

I know there's just tons of things to learn, and when starting programming, it's hard to understand the relevant things of the beginning. I suggest googling for some introductionary material into C++ and general programming.