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Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners

You're reading from  Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839216862
Pages 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joakim Wassberg Joakim Wassberg

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Computer Programs and Computer Programming
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Computer Programs 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Programming Languages 4. Chapter 3: Types of Applications 5. Chapter 4: Software Projects and How We Organize Our Code 6. Section 2: Constructs of a Programming Language
7. Chapter 5: Sequence – The Basic Building Block of a Computer Program 8. Chapter 6: Working with Data – Variables 9. Chapter 7: Program Control Structures 10. Chapter 8: Understanding Functions 11. Chapter 9: When Things Go Wrong – Bugs and Exceptions 12. Chapter 10: Programming Paradigms 13. Chapter 11: Programming Tools and Methodologies 14. Section 3: Best Practices for Writing High-Quality Code
15. Chapter 12: Code Quality 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: How to Translate the Pseudocode into Real Code 1. Appendix B: Dictionary

Iterating over sequences using for each

When we have a sequence of things, we often want to go through it item by item. We can, of course, do that using a for loop, like this:

names = ["Anna", "Bob", "Carl", "Danielle"]
for i = 0 to names.length
    print "Hi " + names[i]
end_for

On the first line, we declare an array of strings containing some names. We are using a variable called names to store the values.

Then, we use a for loop, starting at 0. To find out how many times we will iterate, we ask the array how many items it currently has stored. We do that by using the names variable, and, by using a dot, we can get what is known as a property from the array. This property is a value that stores how many items the array currently has. The way we can ask a sequence how many items it has will differ from language to language, but it will most likely be something like what we have done.

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