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Musthakeem Hameed
Courses Plus Student 1,149 PointsI don't know how to complete this challenge
it says that after creating the while loop, using the value of counter as an index value you need to retrieve values from the array and add it to the value of sum.i tried many times and I couldn't figure out how to do this.
let numbers = [2,8,1,16,4,3,9]
var sum = 0
var counter = 0
// Enter your code below
while counter < numbers.count {
counter += 1
for newValue in numbers.count {
sum += newValue
}
}
1 Answer
Alex Koumparos
Python Development Techdegree Student 36,887 PointsHi Musthakeem,
You don't want to have a second loop inside your first loop. Remember that your while loop is going to run as many times as there are items in your array. Each time your while loop runs, you have a new value for counter that can be used as an index into your array to get the value to add to sum.
Also remember that you can access a value in an array using subscript notation:
myArray = ['a', 'b', 'c']
myValue = myArray[1] // 'b'
Hope that helps
Alex