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Ronald James
Courses Plus Student 463 Pointswhats wrong?
whats wrong with my code?
let numbers = [2,8,1,16,4,3,9]
var sum = 0
var counter = 0
// Enter your code below
while counter > 6 {
print(sum)
}
2 Answers
John Lack-Wilson
8,169 PointsI've just tried your code in the challenge and the error it gives is:
"Make sure you increment the counter variable inside the loop! If you don't, the code loops infinitely and the challenge times out!"
So you might want to increment the counter variable before the ending closing brace of the while loop.
It's always worth reading error messages when programming as they generally give a good indication of what is going wrong.
Gavin Hobbs
5,205 PointsHey Ronald James this is what your code should look like...
let numbers = [2,8,1,16,4,3,9]
var sum = 0
var counter = 0
// Enter your code below
while counter < 7 {
// Add the next number in the array to the sum then assign _that value_ to the 'sum' variable
// It's kind of hard to understand but if you look up '+=' you should be able to figure it out
sum += numbers[counter]
// Add 1 to the 'counter' variable so it isn't an infinite loop
counter += 1
}
Hope this helps!
G'day
- Gavin