yeah, I had no idea how to get the number of elements without the use of at least one build-in option.

Also, the no use of array is tricky for me.

I think I will use these questions that other asks to practice my code but sometimes it is difficult to understand what a piece of code without a little help with comments.

but then again, I am learning so everything is a little tricky...hmm, sometimes I think I should have picked to learn the piccolo over the summer ;-)