Need explanation about loop in javascript

Question

var scores = [2,2,2,2];

var addScore = 0;

function print(message){ document.write(message); }

for (var i = 0; i<scores.length; i+=1){ addScore += scores[i]; }

var average = addScore / scores.length;

print(average);

Please need explanation what is "scores[i]" is doing in this for loop?

Answer 1 · 2016-07-20T20:02:19Z

July 20, 2016 8:02pm

To access an array.

scores = [2, 3, 4, 5]

You can use scores[0] to access the first location holding the number 2.

scores[1] to access the first location holding the number 3

scores[2] to access the first location holding the number 4

scores[3] to access the first location holding the number 5

so in the loop, you are saying from variable i as long as it is less than the length of the array you are going to go thru it all

first time thru i = 0 so you have scores[0] and it is accessing the first location of the array

you are also increasing i by one so next time thru i=1 so you have socres[1] accessing the second locaiton of the array and so on.

edit: also, you are taking addScore which was set to 0 and each time thru the loop you are adding in the value found at that given location. When your loop is done, addScore will include everything in the array added together.

That gives you a total of 8 which you then average by dividing by the length of the array which is 4 so you get 2 and print that to the screen.

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