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G. Gonzalez-Morris, I. HortonBeginning Chttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0149-5_4

4. Loops

German Gonzalez-Morris1   and Ivor Horton2
(1)
Santiago, Chile
(2)
STRATFORD UPON AVON, UK
 

In this chapter, you’ll learn how you can repeat a block of statements until some condition is met. The programming mechanism for this is called a loop. The number of times that a loop is repeated can be controlled simply by a count—repeating the statement block a given number of times—or it can be more complex, repeating a block until some condition is met, such as the user entering "quit". The latter would enable you to program the calculator example in the previous chapter to ...

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