I am stuck and would like some assistance and a little explanation to why I am getting it wrong. please & Thank you

Hey Randell

You've almost got it right, there's just one minor syntax error on your counter incrementer. Swift 4, unlike a bunch of other extended c-like languages you may be used to no longer has a var++ increment (or var-- decrement) operator, instead you need to use counter += 1 the same way that you're summing the array numbers.

What might add to the confusion here is that earlier versions of Swift did include the ++ increment and -- decrement operators but they were deprecated and removed from Swift 3. You can read reasons why these were removed in the proposal by Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift on the Swift repo. The gist is that those operators add unnecessary complexity with limited gain (var += 1 isn't much longer than var++) and were removed to simplify things.

Here's the code I used when completing that challenge:

while counter < numbers.count {
    sum += numbers[counter]
    counter += 1
}

You might also note that while adding parentheses around the condition is valid it is unnecessary and should probably be omitted. All of the control flow examples on Apple's Swift Language guide omit parentheses.

Typically, you'd only use parentheses in a conditional statement when you need complex boolean logic for multiple conditions like this:

var amAwesome = true
var noReally = true

while counter < numbers.count && !(amAwesome == false || noReally == false) {
    sum += numbers[counter]
    counter += 1
}

This example is silly but it demonstrates inverting the values of both variables in a single step. The conditionals chapter in We ❤ Swift has some great easy-to-digest information on conditionals if you want to dig in further.