Totaling all values of randint problem

[troy14]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
Im trying to total all the values of a randint


What is the problem you are having?
I cannot total all the values of a randint, i just get a funny character at the end of my program


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
I have tried to find a solution but haven't found one


Please specify what version of Turing you are using
I am using 4.1.1 of turing

[Insectoid]

Show us the code you've written so far and we'll point you in the right direction.

[troy14]

what im trying to do is get a running total.

this is my code so far

var mark : int
var total : int
var average : int

put "Test# Mark"
for test : 1 .. 10
randint (mark, 1, 30)
put test : 3, mark : 17, "/30"
end for

[Insectoid]

Well, you haven't done anything with 'total' yet. You're going to want to set it to 0 to start. Then you're going to want to start adding things to it, probably inside a loop.

[troy14]

how would i start adding things to it? where would put total to be able to start being added to?

[Insectoid]

Figuring that out is the point of the assignment.

How do you add to something? With the + operator.

var sum = a + b //sum is now a + b

var sum = sum + a //sum is now itself plus a

var sum += a //this is just a nicer way to write sum = sum + a. It does the same thing.

Try running this:

code:

var count = 0 for x : 0..9     count += 1     put count end for

This will add 1 to count and output it 10 times. Now how do you suppose you would add a random number to count instead of 1?

[troy14]

thanks! i got it working.

code:
var mark : int
var total : int
var average : int

total := 0
put "Test# Mark"
for test : 1 .. 10
randint (mark, 1, 30)
put test : 3, mark : 17, "/30"
total +=mark
end for
put total

[mirhagk]

by the way you can use [ code] your code here [ /code] (without the spaces) to get blocks that look like:

code:

var num:int var text := "hello world!"

and for turing you can even do [ syntax="turing"] your turing code here [ /syntax] to get blocks that look like:

Turing:

var num:int var text := "hello world!"

It makes it a lot easier for others to help you, and it will mean you'll be more likely to get a response, and faster