Bad Programming Practices 101: Become a Better Coder by Learning How (Not) to Program

© Karl Beecher 2018

Karl BeecherBad Programming Practices 101https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3411-2_5

5. Loops

Karl Beecher¹ 

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Berlin, Germany

 

Objectives

In this chapter, you’ll learn:

• How to match different types of loops to the wrong situations

• How to make your program prone to freezing by incorporating infinite loops

• How to compromise the structuredness of loops

• Various ways to make loops excessively long and complex

Prerequisites

Before reading this chapter, make sure you’re familiar with:

• Loops in Java:

  • For loop

  • Foreach loop

  • While (or do while) loop

• The basic idea of collections (e.g., List, Set, Queue)

• Iterators

• Reading keyboard input using the Scanner class

Introduction

Like conditionals, loops are a fundamental control structure in programming. ...