Core Programming Fundamentals: Control Structures
Mastering conditional statements (if/else) and loops (for/while) to build interactive applications.
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Mastering conditional statements (if/else) and loops (for/while) to build interactive applications.
Key Questions
- Compare the behaviour of a while loop and a for loop: under what conditions would you choose each?
- Trace the execution of a nested if/else block and predict the output for a given set of inputs.
- Explain what happens when a loop condition never evaluates to false, and how you would detect and prevent this in your code.
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