Questions

• How can I do the same operations on many different values?

Objectives

• Explain what a for loop does.
• Correctly write for loops to repeat simple calculations.
• Trace changes to a loop variable as the loop runs.
• Trace changes to other variables as they are updated by a for loop.

Lecture

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Jupyter Notebook File

Please use the Jupyter notebook named "03RepeatingActionsWithLoops.ipynb" for this lesson. If you haven't downloaded them already, you may find them here.

Key Points

• Use for variable in sequence to process the elements of a sequence one at a time.
• The body of a for loop must be indented.
• Use len(thing) to determine the length of something that contains other values.