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iOS Swift Collections and Control Flow Control Flow With Loops Working With Loops

Posted by STEVEN PENA
STEVEN PENA
13,928 Points

In this task, we have an array of numbers and we want to compute the We have a variable ,sum, that w

am almost their am stuck need a little help

loops.swift 
let numbers = [2,8,1,16,4,3,9]
var sum = 0
var counter = 0

// Enter your code below
 var sum = 0 
 while counter < numbers.count {
 sum += numbers[counter]}counter ++

1 Answer

Craig Allen
Craig Allen
12,388 Points
Craig Allen
Craig Allen
12,388 Points

The counter needs to be inside the loop so it adds 1 each time through. You may need to use counter += 1 instead of counter ++.

Also, you don't need to declare the sum variable a second time right before the loop begins.