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Start your free trialErik Hainer
3,049 PointsI'm lost
I'm honestly not sure how to access the Tongue Length from the Frog class. Any tips on setting this up would be greatly appreciated.
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
class FrogStats
{
public static double GetAverageTongueLength(Frog[] frogs)
{
int index = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < frogs.Length; i++)
{
Frog frog = frogs[index];
return TongueLength.Average;
}
}
}
}
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
public class Frog
{
public int TongueLength { get; }
public Frog(int tongueLength)
{
TongueLength = tongueLength;
}
}
}
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsProbably the most common approach to getting an average is to add up all the individual values in a loop, and then after the loop finishes divide that sum by the number of items (the array length).
Also, you can use the loop variable as the index into the array. You won't need to create a separate index variable.
Inside the loop, to access the Tongue Length of a specific frog object, use frog.TongueLength
.
Erik Hainer
3,049 PointsErik Hainer
3,049 PointsThank you but what I'm wondering is how do I access the average of an array of class properties. I could get the average of frogs, but I don't know how to do the average tongue length.
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsSteven Parker
231,198 PointsI don't think you can actually get an average of "frogs" (what would that mean, anyway?). But as I said, you can calculate an average if you get the
frog.TongueLength
of each one, and add those all up in a loop, and after the loop is done divide that sum by the number of frogs.