PROG0101 Fundamentals of Programming

PROG0101
FUNDAMENTALS OF PROGRAMMING

Chapter 7
Loops

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Topics
• Loops
• Condition Tested Loops
• Counted Loops
• Endless Loops
• FOR Loop
• WHILE Loop
• DO-WHILE Loop

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Loops
• A loop is a sequence of instructions that is continually
repeated until a certain condition is reached.
• Loops allow for the same statement to be executed a
number of times in succession.

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Loops

Pseudocode: Flowchart:

Loop False
Do Something Condition

Until Condition
True

Do something

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• Loops

• There are three types which are common to most

• programming languages:
– Condition Tested Loops
– Counted Loops
– Endless Loops

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Condition Tested Loops
• A condition tested loop is one which repeats a set of
instructions until a certain condition is reached.
• The test can be performed at the start of the loop
(before any of the instructions are executed), during
the loop, or at the end of the loop.
• Usually, the condition will be testing the result of
executing the statements that are inside the loop.

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Counted Loops
• A counted loop is one which allows the programmer
to instruct the computer to perform a set of
instructions x times, where x is usually an integer
value, but some programming languages offer other
data types.
• One could argue that the counted loop is just a
condition tested loop which updates a counter and
exits once a given value is reached.

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Counted Loops
• The only time to use a count loop is when the
program can determine ahead of time how many
times the loop will repeat.
• There are generally two ways that the number of
repetitions of a loop will be know ahead of time:
– The loop always repeats the same number of
times.
– The program calculates the number of repetitions
based upon user input.

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Endless Loops
• An endless loop goes round and round until one of
three things happens:
– The computer is turned off (or the application
stopped, forcefully)
– The computer encounters an EXIT (or similar)
statement
– An error forces the application to 'crash'
• Some endless loops serve a purpose, in message
loops, for example, where it is necessary to
continually monitor for incoming messages from the
operating system.

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Example of Loop Statement
• These are examples loop statement in programming
language

– FOR Loop
– WHILE Loop
– DO … WHILE Loop

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FOR Loop
• A FOR loop is a loop that repeats a specified number
of times.
• The loop uses a counter to tell it how many times to
run the same sequence of activities.

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FOR Loop
• The counter has the following three numeric values:
– Initial counter value
– Increment (the amount to add to the counter each
time the loop runs)
– Final counter value
• The loop ends when the counter reaches the final
counter value, or, if there is an associated test
condition, when the test condition is true.

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FOR Loop
Pseudocode: Flowchart:

FOR x times Initial value

Do Something
Increment Condition
(Final
counter)

Do something

Increment

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FOR Loop
FOR loop syntax:

FOR (initial counter value, final counter, increment)

Statement (Do Something)

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FOR Loop
Example 1:

FOR (x=1, x<5, x++) Output:

PRINT “Hello World”
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World

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FOR Loop
Example 2:

FOR (x=1, x<=4, x++) Output:

PRINT x
1
2
3
4

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FOR Loop
Example 3:

FOR (x=5, x>0, x--) Output:

PRINT x
5
4
3
2
1

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WHILE Loop
• A WHILE loop is a loop that repeats while some
condition is satisfied.
• The WHILE loop tests its condition at the beginning of
every loop.
• If the condition is false from the start, the sequence of
activities contained in the loop never runs at all.

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WHILE Loop
Pseudocode: Flowchart:

WHILE condition
False
Do Something Condition

True

Do so mething

19
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WHILE Loop
WHILE loop syntax:

WHILE (Condition)
Statement (Do Something)

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WHILE Loop
Example 1:
Output:

WHILE (x < 5) Hello World

PRINT “Hello World” Hello World
x++ Hello World
Hello World

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WHILE Loop
Example 2:
Output:
WHILE (key != Esc)
Hello world
PRINT “Hello World” Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
…

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DO-WHILE Loop
• Like a while loop, a do-while loop is a loop that
repeats while some condition is satisfied.
• Unlike a while loop, a do-while loop tests its condition
at the end of the loop.
• This means that its sequence of activities always runs
at least once.

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DO-WHILE Loop
Pseudocode: Flowchart:

Do
something Do something

WHILE condition
False
Condition

True

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DO-WHILE Loop
DO-WHILE Loop Syntax

DO
Statement
WHILE (Condition)

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DO-WHILE Loop
Example 1:

x=1 Output:
DO
PRINT “Hello World” Hello World
x++ Hello World
WHILE (x<5) Hello World
Hello World

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DO-WHILE Loop
Example 2:

x=1 Output:
DO
PRINT “Hello World” Hello World
x++
WHILE (x>5)

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DO-WHILE Loop
Example 3:

DO Output:
PRINT “Hello World”
WHILE (Key != Esc) Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
…

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Exercise
Draw flowchart diagram for the following programs using
loop:

1. A program that display number 1 to 20

2. A program that display a person name x times.

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