Java Programming for Beginners

Creating a for loop

Now let's begin creating our for loop. Our for loop is going to run 26 times; each time it runs, it will take the next character in the English alphabet and place it in our character array: alpha.

To make sure our for loop runs exactly 26 times, we should declare a counting variable, say i, and set it to 0, that is, (i=0). Next, let's say that our for loop should continue to run as long as the value of our counting variable is less than 26, that is, it should take values between 0 and 25 (i<26). Lastly, every time our for loop runs, we need to increase the value of our counting variable by one so that it goes up each time, and after 26 iterations, the i<26 statement will no longer be true and our loop will stop at (i++ ...