use an array to hold the marks. go to the Turing Walkthrough; learn from that ask more questions if you have. and please use code tags?!

ok i never learned and this i cant cos i need it now T_T

Did you even test that code?
I don't know why I asked that, because I know you didn't. Because I just did, and it didn't work. You said "exit when marks := "done"
There are 2 things wrong with that line:

1. ':=' is the assignment operator. So your exit statement assigns marks to "done"
2. marks is an integer value. It won't run like that, and there will be an error if you try to enter it.

Download Turing and test it yourself next time.
http://holtsoft.com/Turing%204.1.1.zip

that is because the "=" makes it a boolean expression and you cant compare ints with a string without casting.

honestly you dont even need the loop

jsut remove teh loop.

Turing:

var markstotal : real var marks1 : real var marks2 : real var marks3 : real var marks4 : real var marks5 : real var marks6 : real var count : int marks1 := 0 marks2 := 0 marks3 := 0 marks4 := 0 marks5 := 0 marks6 := 0 put "What are the 1st marks you want to enter? Type done to exit." get marks1 put "What are the 2nd marks you want to enter? Type done to exit." get marks2 put "What are the 3rd marks you want to enter? Type done to exit." get marks3 put "What are the 4th marks you want to enter? Type done to exit." get marks4 put "What are the 5th marks you want to enter? Type done to exit." get marks5 put "What are the 6th marks you want to enter? Type done to exit." get marks6 markstotal := marks1 + marks2 + marks3 + marks4 + marks5 + marks6 put "The average mark is ", markstotal / count

You only need one variable for the input. You can use that variable over and over to get the input, and then add it to a separate variable to keep track of the sum each time.

Ok im trying to make this program and im a nubie
it asks for how much marks you want to enter from 4-6, then averages them

var marks: real
marks:= 0
loop
put "What are the marks you want to enter? Type stop to exit."
get marks
exit when marks = "exit"
end loop

Granted it will add many more than 6 if the user imputs the values, if they yeild to the notice, this program is perfect.

Firstly, why do you guys post the absurdly long codings? He had the right Idea with a loop, just wasn't using it right.

Here is a simple solution:

code:

var marks : int var sum : int :=0 var count :int :=0 put "Enter from 4 to 6 marks, when finished, type 0." put "" loop put "Enter Mark" get marks put "" exit when marks = 0 sum := sum + marks count:= count + 1 end loop put "The avereage of all your marks is ", sum / count

Granted it will add many more than 6 if the user imputs the values, if they yeild to the notice, this program is perfect.

Alternatively, it could ask the user how many marks he/she wants to input before the loop, store it in a var, and the 'exit when' statement could correspond to that var. Also, if a mark was inputted ouside the 4-6 range, then there could be a seperate 'exit when' and/or 'if' statement for that.