Where were you years ago when I started taking CS classes? The first two years was all trees and no forest, so I ditched the major and jumped onto the Physics bandwagon. I would have been happier in the department if more professors had integrated your "stop and think about what the heck you are doing" philosophy.

To the original poster: sundial is right. It isn't bad or even uncommon that you are having a "Where do I even start" problem, but you won't fix it by taking the answer straight from here. Go find help, from your instructor, from teaching assistants, from classmates, or whoever is around. You'd be doing yourself a favor to tackle this problem right away, rather than letting it compound during the semester/school year.

In reply to Re^2: confused with summing certain elements from an array by amarquis
in thread confused with summing certain elements from an array by Anonymous Monk

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