I went ahead and moved this thread to Beginner's Corner. Thanks for the pointer, Srjek. Of course, it is possible to get an average without having a built-in average method. A while ago, I was playing around with a program called CountFour and got some help from ZMan and LFS to improve my very rudimentary first stab on how to count up 4 ...

This program is a little illustration of some things you can do manipulating numbers arithmetically in a console program. It was inspired by an end-of-chapter 3 exercise in "Visual Basic 2005, How to Program" by Deitel: "Write a program that inputs five numbers and determines and prints the number of negative numbers input, the ...