Struggling with arrays and for loops

[Vik0711]

Hiya,
I am a student and I am struggling with some arrays I have. There are three arrays, all of which have been declared, two contain numbers, and the third contains names. I need to add the two with numbers together and display with the name. The results of the two numbers added up, needs to be stored in another array.

Please help, I have been up all night, trying everything, looked everywhere, just a hint is all I need, a big hint would be great,

Thanks :)

[gits]

what do you have so far? and please explain a bit more what the output should be ...

kind regards

[Vik0711]

Hiya Gits,

Its basically a little program to calculate the combine points scored. So for each team I need to work out their total score.

I have firstly created another array called 'combinedpoints array' which is where I need the results to be stored.
I then started writing the code for the maths...but I am so very lost now. This is what I have so far..

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "JavaScript">
 

//names of people stored in array
var namesArray = ['Dave and Doris', 'Fred and Elsie', 'Mike and Sue', 'Geoff and Vera', 
'Paul and Dedrie'];

//points awarded by first and second stored in arrays
var firstPointsArray = [2,1,5,4,3];
var secondPointsArray = [4,5,2,3,1];


//Add code to declare a new array to store the combined points for each couple

// I think I have this bit right...

var combinedPointsArray = new Array(5);


//Part  (i)(b)
//Add code to calculate the combined points for each couple and store it in the combined points array
// Its this bit that has really confused me
	
	for (var score = 0; score < names.length; score = score + 1)
		{
		combinedPointsArray = firstPointsArray [0] + secondPointsArray [0];
		
		document.write (namesArray + '<br>' + combinedPointsArray + '<br>');
		}
		
</script>

Thanks for taking the time to look at this for me :)

[Vik0711]

Hiya Gits,

Its basically a little program to calculate the combine points scored. So for each team I need to work out their total score.

I have firstly created another array called 'combinedpoints array' which is where I need the results to be stored.
I then started writing the code for the maths...but I am so very lost now. This is what I have so far..

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "JavaScript">
 

//names of people stored in array
var namesArray = ['Dave and Doris', 'Fred and Elsie', 'Mike and Sue', 'Geoff and Vera', 
'Paul and Dedrie'];

//points awarded by first and second stored in arrays
var firstPointsArray = [2,1,5,4,3];
var secondPointsArray = [4,5,2,3,1];


//Add code to declare a new array to store the combined points for each couple

// I think I have this bit right...

var combinedPointsArray = new Array(5);


//Part  (i)(b)
//Add code to calculate the combined points for each couple and store it in the combined points array
// Its this bit that has really confused me
	
	for (var score = 0; score < names.length; score = score + 1)
		{
		combinedPointsArray = firstPointsArray [0] + secondPointsArray [0];
		
		document.write (namesArray + '<br>' + combinedPointsArray + '<br>');
		}
		
</script>

Thanks for taking the time to look at this for me :)

Thanks Dormilich, I am a total newbie. Sorry for the mistake

Vik :)

[gits]

there are 2 issues ...

first:

for (var score = 0; score < names.length; score++) {

should be:

for (var score = 0; score < namesArray.length; score++) {

since you don't have names declared but namesArray.

second - you should use your counter:

combinedPointsArray = firstPointsArray[score] + secondPointsArray[score];

since you currently just add the element 0 for all steps.