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Chapter4:Loops

ChapterGoals • Toimplementwhileandforloops • Tohand‐tracetheexecutionofaprogram • Tobecomefamiliarwithcommonloopalgorithms • Tounderstandnestedloops • Toimplementprogramsthatreadandprocessdatasets • Touseacomputerforsimulations Inthischapter,youwilllearnaboutloopstatementsinPython,aswell astechniquesforwritingprogramsthatsimulateactivitiesinthereal world.

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Contents • Thewhile loop • ProblemSolving:Hand‐Tracing(HW) • Application:ProcessingSentinels • ProblemSolving:Storyboards(HW) • CommonLoopAlgorithms • Thefor loop • Nestedloops • ProcessingStrings • Application:RandomNumbersandSimulation • ProblemSolving:SolveaSimplerProblemFirst

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Thewhile Loop

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Thewhil whil while e Loop • Examplesofloopapplications • Calculatingcompoundinterest • Simulations,eventdrivenprograms • Drawingtiles… • Compoundinterestalgorithm(Chapter1)

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Planningthewhi whi whille Loop balance=10.0 target=100.0 year=0 rate=0.025 whilebalance...