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Mark J. Price
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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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Understanding iteration statements

Iteration statements repeat a block of statements either while a condition is true (while and for statements) or for each item in a collection (foreach statement). The choice of which statement to use is based on a combination of ease of understanding to solve the logic problem and personal preference.

Looping with the while statement

The while statement evaluates a Boolean expression and continues to loop while it is true. Let’s explore iteration statements:

  1. Use your preferred coding tool to add a new Console App / console project named IterationStatements to the Chapter03 solution.
  2. In Program.cs, delete the existing statements and then add statements to define a while statement that loops while an integer variable has a value less than 10, as shown in the following code:
    int x = 0;
    while (x < 10)
    {
      WriteLine(x);
      x++;
    }
    
  3. Run the code and view the results, which should be the numbers 0 to...
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Mark J. Price

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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