I am SO frustrated, I am learning JavaScript for class and our teacher gave us this assignment:
The purpose of this program is to allow the user to input four numbers: test average, program average, final exam grade, and attendance grade. The program then calculates the final average of the student based on the weights each part of the grade counts for this class.

Your program must comply with the following specifications:

Prompt the user for a student name

Prompt the user for a test average

Prompt the user for a program average

Prompt the user for a final exam score

Prompt the user for an attendance grade

Give each of the four values an appropriate weight, as described in the class syllabus, and calculate the average for the student.

Print out the average for the student using a JavaScript alert.

Prompt the user for another student name.

Repeat until the user enters NONE as the student's name. When this happens the program should terminate.

The program must be named average.html. It must contain html code with embedded JavaScript code. It must be a structured program accessible through http://www.valdosta.edu/~yourUserNam.../average.html. In order to get a 100 on this program, the function of calculating the average must be in a module which is called by the main program.

...okay, so I have it in the right place and all, that's not the problem, the problem is that my program skips right over my function. It does EVERYTHING in the loop it's supposed to and correctly defines all the variables in the loop, but skips the function almost like it doesn't exist. I have tried countless online tutorials and just don't understand JavaScript enough to fix it. Here's the link: www.valdosta.edu/~wrconkli/CS1010/average.html
and here's my code:
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...any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you in advance

there's the code...it didn't work on the last page...

Crap, the code won't show. Just go to the link, exit the program, go to View, and then source...

I would have used .5 instead of (1/2) sometimes I have seen fractions mess up a program....

And I don't believe you can call a fuctions variable outside the function...
Though I must admit it have been a little while since I porgrammed anything....

Soulless

I tried changing the 1/2 to .5 soulless... it didn't work

thank you, I originally had it as a decimal and thought maybe that was screwing it up, it seems to not work either way. I will try calling the functionspecific variables inside the functions and keep you updated, thank you

well, I changed it to this:
var studentName //the student in question's name
var testAvg //their average for all their tests
var programAvg //their average for programs
var finalExam //their grade on the final exam
//all vars abive here are user defined
var finalGrade
studentName = prompt("Please enter the name of a student or type NONE to exit.","")
//priming read; prompts user to input the student's grade

while (studentName != "NONE")
//loop that prompts user for all of the user defined variables
{
testAvg = prompt("Enter " + studentName + "'s test average.","")
programAvg = prompt("Enter " + studentName + "'s program average.","")
finalExam = prompt("Enter " + studentName + "'s final exam grade.","")
attendanceGrade = prompt("Enter " + studentName + "'s attendance grade.","")
function calculateGrade()
{
var weightedTestAvg
var weightedProgramAvg
var weightedFinalExam
var weightedAttendanceGrade
var finalGrade
weightedTestAvg = testAvg * (1/2)
weightedProgramAvg = programAvg * .25
weightedFinalExam = finalExam * .2
weightedAttendanceGrade = attendanceGrade * .05
finalGrade = weightedTestAvg + weightedProgramAvg + weightedFinalExam + weightedAttendanceGrade
}
alert(studentName + " made a " + finalGrade + " in CS1010.")
alert("weightedTestAvg = " + weightedTestAvg)
studentName = prompt("Please enter the name of a student or type NONE to exit.","")
}

and it still doesn't work. Actually, now it stops right before the function. None of the loop from the function down works now..hmm...

You have to define the function outside the loop, then call it from inside the loop. Something like the following (I haven't checked the actual code to make sure it works, but this is closer to the form it should take):

EDIT: I changed the code around a bit; you'll have to check the math to see if it's coming out how you want, but at least this'll run now:

awesome, I had it something like that earlier (but not calling the variables, thank you, I will try that when I can, g2g to class now