User storing scores of 10 students in an array

[d24706]

Hello,

I hope someone can help me. I had to do the following assignment( i have most of it done just cant finish it off, question and source code below).

Question?
Write a Java program that asks the user to input the scores, as a percentage( e.g 87.4), of 10 students. The scores entered must be stored ina n array.

The programme must determine:

The lowest score and its equivalent grade (ie A,B,etc)
The highest " " " " "
The average score and its "

The bit i cant do is tie in the equivalent grade with the lowest highest and average score.

Code:

//Arrayofscores.java
//This programme asks the user to enter 5 exam scores and store them in an array
import java.text.*;
 
public class Arrayofscores
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        int [] scores = new int[10];
        int smallest, highest,temp,total=0;
        double average =0.0;
 
        //ask the user to enter 10 scores
        for (int i = 0;i<= scores.length-1;i++)
        {
        System.out.print("\n\nEnter Score " + (i+1) + ": ");
            scores[i] = UserInput.getInt();
        }
 
            //find the lowest score
            smallest = scores[0];
 
            for (int i = 1; i <= scores.length-1;i++)
            if (scores[i] < smallest)
                smallest = scores[i];
 
    System.out.println("\nThe lowest score is : " + smallest);
 
            //find the highest score
            highest = scores[0];
 
            for (int i = 1; i <= scores.length-1;i++)
            if (scores[i] > highest)
                highest = scores[i];
 
        System.out.println("\nThe highest score is : " + highest);
 
                //find the average score
            for (int i = 0; i<=scores.length-1;i++)
            total = total + scores[i];
 
            average = total/10.0;
        System.out.println("\nThe average score is : " + average);    
 
            }    

}


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

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[RedSon]

First I suggest you sort your array after your user enters the 10 elements. Then element [0] is your smallest and element [9] is your largest, then to find the average you add up each element 0 through 9 and divide by the number of elements 10. After that when you output all you need to do is determine which letter grade corresponds to what value.

This should be fairly easy to work out, no?

[d24706]

Im still struggling to figure out the last piece, what i have come up with since and i think im getting on the right track is;

public static float getGrade()
 
            {
            float grade;
 
            if (score > 90) 
            grade = "A"; 
            else if (score > 75) 
            grade = "B";
 
            System.out.println("\nThis is a " + getGrade(highest) + " grade.");
 
            return grade;
 

[RedSon]

Im still struggling to figure out the last piece, what i have come up with since and i think im getting on the right track is;

public static float getGrade()
 
            {
            float grade;
 
            if (score > 90) 
            grade = "A"; 
            else if (score > 75) 
            grade = "B";
 
            System.out.println("\nThis is a " + getGrade(highest) + " grade.");
 
            return grade;
 

why are you making a recursive call? And why do you think getGrade(highes t) will work? Have you defined a getGrade method that takes an argument?

[d24706]

sorry,im lost,looked over my notes and i just cant figure out methods,can someone tell me what the code should look like to get this to work.

[RedSon]

sorry,im lost,looked over my notes and i just cant figure out methods,can someone tell me what the code should look like to get this to work.

If you have:

public static void main(String[] args)
{
   int a;
   int b;
 
   int c = addTogether(a, b);
}

What would the method signature be for addTogether?

[nomad]

Im still struggling to figure out the last piece, what i have come up with since and i think im getting on the right track is;

public static float getGrade()
 
            {
            float grade;
 
            if (score > 90) 
            grade = "A"; 
            else if (score > 75) 
            grade = "B";
 
            System.out.println("\nThis is a " + getGrade(highest) + " grade.");
 
            return grade;
 

One could use two arrays which must be of the same length do get a letter grade. So if someone enter 90 the result would be an A.
Think about it.

nomad

[BigDaddyLH]

Im still struggling to figure out the last piece, what i have come up with since and i think im getting on the right track is;

public static float getGrade()
 
            {
            float grade;
 
            if (score > 90) 
            grade = "A"; 
            else if (score > 75) 
            grade = "B";
 
            System.out.println("\nThis is a " + getGrade(highest) + " grade.");
 
            return grade;
 

Another thing (another!) wrong with this code is the type. What is the type for a grade? A float? Then why are you trying to return strings like "A" or "B? Sit down away from the keyboard and decide what the type for a grade should be.