Assignment 6 - Loops
 

I recently completed this one. We had to make a character that sang the 99 bottles of pop song all the way down to 0. We were supposed to use a 'While' statement however I could not get that to work so I didn't use it and accomplished the same goal. If you did yours with the 'While' statement, I would like to know how you did it.:D

Depending on the final verse either
While counter > 0
or
While counter >= 0
..sing
..dec the counter

[QUOTE=shaolinkidd;56635]I recently completed this one. We had to make a character that sang the 99 bottles of pop song all the way down to 0. We were supposed to use a 'While' statement however I could not get that to work so I didn't use it and accomplished the same goal. If you did yours with the 'While' statement, I would like to know how you did it.:D[/QUOTE]

Just curious how did you do it?

I'm also curious how you did it without a while statement. You're quite creative.

My solution:
[url]http://gyazo.com/b08e6c0aa7b56d02a0fb3b09210ae065[/url]

loops
 

[QUOTE=CodeMan;56642]Just curious how did you do it?[/QUOTE]

I used a loop with a counter that incremented by 1 up to (but not including) 100 times

Assignment 6
 

[QUOTE=shaolinkidd;56679]I used a loop with a counter that incremented by 1 up to (but not including) 100 times[/QUOTE]

See attached...

Assignment 6
 

[url]https://gyazo.com/a466644d1a0ce42fb1ecbdfa29e16f03[/url]

[QUOTE=shaolinkidd;56682][url]https://gyazo.com/a466644d1a0ce42fb1ecbdfa29e16f03[/url][/QUOTE]

ndx = 99
while ndx > 0[INDENT]Do all your singing stuff
ndx=ndx-1[/INDENT]
stuff to do after the song has ended.

When you get to 1 it will sing about one bottle of soda and decrement ndx to 0 at which point the while loop will exit
Note: for testing I would make ndx=3 and make sure everything works then change it to 99 before you submit it.

Mark

I'm also curious how you did it without a while statement. You're quite creative.

[QUOTE=shaolinkidd;56681]See attached...[/QUOTE]

I see, not the way I would do it but it works. :)

Comments on the types of loops
 

If Alice had a break statement, a programmer could write for loops that could be readily converted into a while loop or vice-versa.

Indeed this is true of all the "standard" looping constructs:[LIST][*]for[*]while[*]do ...while[*]repeat ... until[*]possibily others I can't think of.[/LIST]With a few minor change these can all be used in any looping construct.
The reason to use one over another is because the chosen loop construct makes the code easier to understand, or the program's logic clearer.
In the context of the given assignment, the most natural choice, in my opinion, would be the for loop. I say this because the problem has a set number of loops and the for statement automagically gives the count needed to display the remaining number of bottles.
With a while loop the index must be created outside the loop and manually changed within the loop.
The only reason I can see to require using a while loop is to make sure the student understands how to use it and to compare the for and while loop structures.

Mark

P.S. If you can make it work with a for loop you've got all the pieces right and all that is left is to figure out the differences needed to make a while loop work.