He is saying you have two numbers to choose from as your max. You just want to find the largest of the two. Therefore set your max to be one of them (choose whichever one you fancy) and then compare them. If the other is larger, set that as your max. Setting the max to be 0 requires you to have an extra else clause on that comparison which is not needed if you initalize your max to be one of the two inputs.

Well.. you mean if I input 2 numbers, and I would have to input always the highest one first?

If that's what you mean, I can't do that, my teacher does the tests and she just enters them in random orders.

No dude, we are past input, you already have them at this point you have input 2 numbers



Your job is to find which is the highest and which is the smallest



Given what carteblanche and myself have recommended, how would you do that?

Well. I guess I could do.

Yea, that definitely works. Now take a look back at carteblanche's previous post and see how you can use smallest and largest to put together a for loop that will allow you to print out largest, smallest times.

Alright, thanks to both of ya, sorry if im slow at understanding. It's 2 : 00 am and im pretty tired and can't wait to be done.

Don't apologize for being slow. You're learning. Don't ever apologize for learning. Go at your own pace.

you can apologize for starting at the last minute, though. but don't apologize to us; apologize to yourself.

the less you understand, the sooner you start and the more you practice.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Oct 2 2014 12:14am

Well I started like 1 month ago max, and we only have 3 hours per week in programming which isn't much.

But yeah I know ... last minute, im used to do homeworks like that, and it's my problem but I don't mind having little of sleep, if I get my things done in time, im cool with that.

Its the equivalent of cramming. It doesn't do you any good other than securing a meaningless mark on a report card. You don't retain information thoroughly.