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Beginner Programming Lessons: Loops

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Loops

By Sanjay and Arvind Seshan

BEGINNER PROGRAMMING LESSONS


LESSON OBJECTIVES

1. Learn how to repeat an action


2. Learn how to use Loop Blocks

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REPEATING AN ACTION
Let’s say we want the robot to repeat
an action over and over again.
Would you just copy the block
multiple times?
Sure, that could work!
What if I want to repeat that block
forever?
Now what?

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LOOPS

Loops make repeating a task multiple


times easy
The added benefit is that a loop can end
whenever you want (a specific number
of times, run forever, a specific
condition, etc)

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LOOP CHALLENGE

Challenge: Write a program to go around a box once.

The simple way is to code it like this:

Use a loop to improve the code

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LOOP CHALLENGE SOLUTION

Run 4
times

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CREDITS
• This tutorial was created by Sanjay Seshan and Arvind Seshan
• More lessons are available at [Link]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-


NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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