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\nThere are two basic types of loops including for and while. An example of a loop is to check the temperature of the egg every second and adjust the heater. The loop may continue for a determine amount of time or until a certain condition...\nThere are two basic types of loops including for and while. An example of a loop is to check the temperature of the egg every second and adjust the heater. The loop may continue for a determine amount of time or until a certain condition is met.

While loops work by repeating until the condition becomes false. The way they are coded can almost be said as a sentence.

A while loop can get stuck in an infinite loop if the condition for termination is never met. You can stop the infinite loop by setting the value of true to become false in many ways. In the code below, the infinite loop is broken by making x one less each time it goes through the loop, with x = x - 1.

Tip: x = x - 1 can be simplified into x -= 1. They mean the same thing, it's just a little shorter. This is true for most other math operators. +=, *=, /=, are all valid operators.

Another thing used in while loops is the == symbols. Just one = means you are assigning a variable, but you shouldn't do that in the condition that tells the while loop when to end. Instead use the == to tell the code you are comparing the two values. For example:

while x == 0


This while loop continues while x is equal to zero.\n
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