Unit #5-08

Learning Outcome

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• understand and use a loop statement with if statements

Review

• boolean expressions

Lesson

• can you combine an if statement inside a loop, YES

  • you can make an "infinite" loop by: while (true) {  

  • you can exit an infinite loop by: break 

Activity

• nil

Daily Assignment

• create a program, using a loop and an if statement, that:

  • it does long division on 2 positive integers, while simplified long division

    • keep subtracting until the number you are left with is smaller that the number you are dividing by and then break and show the remainder

• Example:

  • 7 / 2

    • 7 -2 = 5 ☚ first time
      5 - 2 = 3 ☚  second time
      3 - 2 = 1 ☚  third time (break)
      therefore 7 / 2 = 3 R 1

Extra

• do the above program in PHP