programming help, random number generation

[jackspam]

I need help on getting started with a dice program that will output as many random numbers from 1 to 6 and as many rolls as the user requests, and then how many times each number shows up from the number of rolls (occurrences)...and the corresponding percent. I'm supposed to use a loop (while, for) and some "do". . . I'm lost. Please help!

So far, this is what I have. . .

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
 
 
int main ()
{
  int x;
  int Rolls;
  int DiceNumber;
  int Number;
  int FinalRoll;
  int D1;
  int D2;
  int D3;
  int D4;
  int D5;
  int D6;
  double Occurances;
  double Percent;
 
//Initialize Random Seed
  srand ( time(NULL) );
 
//Rolling die
  Number = rand() %6 + 1;
 
    x = 0
    D1 = 0
    D2 = 0
    D3 = 0
    D4 = 0
    D5 = 0
    D6 = 0
 
  do {
      printf("Enter the number of times you want to roll the die:\n");
      scanf("%d", &Rolls);
      if
      while (x < Rolls) {
 
    Percent = Occurances / Rolls
    printf("%6c,%3d,%6c%3d%8c%7.2f\n", DiceNumber, ' ', Occurances, ' ', Percent);
 
  return 0;
}

[RRick]

The best way to deal with a program like this is one issue at a time.

As for your do-while loop, its all messed up. My suggestion is ignore the "do" part and replace it with a single while loop. It will look something like while( xxx) { ... }, where xxx is the conditional (you got that right) and ... is the code.

You got Number right, but you only generate a single one. You want to generate "Rolls" number of them, so you need to put that inside the while loop.

You need to store the values of Number somewhere. I suspect that what D1 ... D6 are for. If you want to use them, you will have to create a big if-else strucure that checks each possible value for Number and then up dates the correct variable. You could instead use an array (with 7 not 6 items) and just update each cell in the array by using Number as an index to the array. Both ways work, but one uses a lot less code.

Finally, you need to print out the results. This is done after the while loop.