Can someone please help me with C++?

I am not getting the average on this program why? my output is 0. what do i have wrong? please be specific with an answer - i am just learning C++ thanx! this is my code:


#include %26lt;iostream%26gt;


#include %26lt;iomanip%26gt;





using std::cout;


using std::cin;


using std::endl;


using std::fixed;


using std::setprecision;








int main()


{


//declare variables


int section = 1;


int grades = 0;


double totalGrades = 0.0;


double average = 0.0;





while (section %26lt; 3)


{


cout %26lt;%26lt; "Grades for Section " %26lt;%26lt; section %26lt;%26lt; ": " ;


cin %26gt;%26gt; grades;





while (grades %26gt; 0)


{


average = totalGrades / section;





cout %26lt;%26lt; "Next grade for Section " %26lt;%26lt; section %26lt;%26lt; ": " ;


cin %26gt;%26gt; grades;


} //end while





cout %26lt;%26lt; endl %26lt;%26lt; "Section " %26lt;%26lt; section %26lt;%26lt; " Average: " %26lt;%26lt; totalGrades %26lt;%26lt; endl %26lt;%26lt; endl;





section += 1;





average = 0.0;


} //end while


cout %26lt;%26lt; "End of the program" %26lt;%26lt; endl;


} //end of main function

Can someone please help me with C++?
I am not sure I understand your question.
Reply:Travers N for the win. I agree.
Reply:You're not adding 'grades' to 'totalGrades'. Also, your average calculation is wrong -- it should be:





average = totalGrades / gradesRead;





Why would you divide the sum of grades by the section number??





Your inner loop should look like:





totalGrades = 0;


gradesRead = 0;


while (grades %26gt; 0) {


cout %26lt;%26lt; "Next grade for Section " %26lt;%26lt; section %26lt;%26lt; ":";


cin %26gt;%26gt; grades;





totalGrades += grades;


gradesRead++;


}





average = totalGrades / gradesRead;
Reply:Who knows what that is suppose to be doing.





But you only assign totalGrades at the first to 0.0 .





Then you try to do this


average = totalGrades / section





which doesn't make sense because you are 0/section? that doesn't help.

marigold