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Explaining Simple Loops

From Bold Idea Knowledgebase

Introduction

Computers are really good at repeating actions. You can count to ten, twenty or one hundred, but a computer can count to a billion or a trillion. It won’t get bored, and it will only take a few seconds. Whether it’s counting, drawing or anything – computers can repeat things hundred and even millions of times.

In coding, we call this a loop. A loop is how you repeat your code over and over again. When you know in advance that you want to do something a certain number of times, it’s easier if you tell the computer to “repeat it that many times” using a loop.

What is it?

A loop is the action of doing something over and over again.