Lesson 17. Customizing loops
After reading lesson 17, you’ll be able to
- Write more-complicated for loops that start and end at custom values
- Write loops that iterate over strings
You write programs so you can make the user’s life easier in some way, but that doesn’t mean that the programmer’s experience with writing a program should be tedious. Many programming languages have added customizations to certain language constructs so that a programmer can take advantage of them and write code more efficiently.
Consider this
You give your spouse a list of movies you want to watch over the course of one year. Every odd-numbered movie is action, and every even-numbered movie is comedy:
- What pattern can you follow to reliably make sure ...
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