Iteration: count-controlled and condition-controlled loops
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A loop in OCR Exam Reference Language has the body print(i) and ends with next i. Identify the first line that makes it output the numbers 1 to 10, and nothing else.
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OCR GCSE Computer Science (J277) 2.2.1 Programming fundamentals: iteration (count-controlled and condition-controlled loops). Python lesson 5 of 10 in 2.2 Programming fundamentals, with OCR Exam Reference Language beside the Python: a spot-the-mistakes Do Now, a short key idea, a 9-challenge ladd…
20 slides.
Lesson outline
- Do Now: spot the 3 mistakes
- Do Now: answers
- Key idea: Count-controlled loops: for
- Quick check: how many times?
- Key idea: Condition-controlled loops: while
- Quick check: zero passes
- Key idea: do ... until: always at least once
- Key idea: Totals, counts and nested loops
- Quick check: loops inside loops
- Set 1: count-controlled loops
- Set 2: totals and counts
- Set 3: condition-controlled loops
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