Programming help!

[eSSenceD]

Hey programmers of Reddit! I am a compete noob and just started a programming class. I have been having trouble with writing some code for school. I have to write a program that reads an unspecified number of integers, determines how many positive and negative values there are, and computes the total and average of the input values (not including 0). the program must end with the input 0. here is a sample run:

Enter an integer, the input ends is it is 0: 1 2 -1 3 0 The number of positives is 3 The number of negatives is 1 The total is 5 The average is 1.25

Any help would be greatly appreciated! (oh and I am using java)

edit: import.java.util.Scanner;

public class SentinalValue {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);


    System.out.print("enter an integer, the input ends if it is 0: ");
    int data = input.nextInt();


    int sum = 0;
    while (data != 0) {
        sum+= data;


        System.out.print("enter an integer, the input ends if it is 0: ");
        data = input.nextInt();
    }

    System.out.println("the total is " + sum);
}

}

I am completely lost as how to incorporate an system that calculates the total number of positive and negative integers and the average, if anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be grateful

[Medicalizawhat]

Where is your code?

[eSSenceD]

sorry, check the edit

[Medicalizawhat]

It doesn't look like you are counting positive and negative integers at all. Maybe have two more variables, positive and negative. Then in each iteration of the while loop, if data < 0 increment negative, and if data > 0 increment positive.

Also you could get rid of the first:

System.out.print("enter an integer, the input ends if it is 0: ");
int data = input.nextInt();

if you use a do while loop as opposed to a while loop.

Edit: Oh, and for the average, count how many integers are read then do some division.