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CSE 1321L: Programming and Problem Solving I Lab

Lab 5

Flow Control (Part 2)

What students will learn:


• Using WHILE loops
• Using FOR loops
• Using nested FOR loops

If there’s one thing computers are good at, it is repeating something over and over. The concept of
repetition (which some call “iteration” and others “looping”) is not terribly difficult since we humans
repeat things in our daily lives. Any decent programming language is going to support iteration and
usually allows for two different kinds of “looping templates”. These templates are exactly what this lab
is going to cover.

The two kinds of loops we’ll cover are the for and while loop. You want to memorize the templates
for these.

while <condition>:
<body>

for <element> in <iterable>:


<body>

In a WHILE loop, <condition> can be anything that resolves to a Boolean value (True or False).
This could mean Boolean variables, as well as comparison or logical expressions.

In a FOR loop, <iterable> can be anything that can be iterated over (we’ll see more about these at
a later module. Right now, the only things that you can iterate over are strings and ranges). At
each iteration (read: lap) of the loop, <element> will hold one element from the <iterable>. These
elements are retrieves one by one, in the order that they appear in the <iterable>.

It’s important to know when to use them. Here’s an overall guideline to help you out:

1. Use a for loop when you want to repeat something a certain number of times. For example, if
you want to repeat something 100 times, and a for loop is a good candidate for that. Or, if you
wanted to count from 50 to 3000 in increments of 10, you could do that too.
2. Use a while loop is useful when you don’t know how many times something will repeat; the loop
could “go on forever”. As an example, if you ask a user to enter a number between 1- 10 and
they consistently enter 45, this could go on forever. Eventually (and hopefully), the user would
enter a valid number.

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Lab5A: Largest of 10
For this lab, please use a for loop. The goal of this exercise is for you to create a program that will ask
the user to input 10 positive integer numbers, one at a time. While it does this the program should
also keep track of the largest number it has seen so far. After it has run 10 times, it should display the
largest number you input.

The user input is indicated in bold.

Sample output:

Please enter 10 numbers and this program will display the largest.
Please enter number 1: 50
Please enter number 2: 51
Please enter number 3: 10
Please enter number 4: 1
Please enter number 5: 99
Please enter number 6: 1000
Please enter number 7: 1010
Please enter number 8: 42
Please enter number 9: 89
Please enter number 10: 1000

The largest number was 1010

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Lab5B: The box
Write a program that asks the user for a value. Based on the value given to the program by the user,
use nested for-loops to draw a box that has the length and the width of the value specified by the
user. Afterwards, use the same value and another pair of nested for-loops to draw a right-facing right-
triangle. Finally, use a last pair of nested for-loops to draw a right-triangle facing the left. See the
examples below for reference.
The user input is indicated in bold.
Sample Output #1:
Please enter a value for the size: 4
This is the requested 4x4 box:
****
****
****
****
This is the requested right-facing 4x4 right-triangle:
*
**
***
****
This is the requested left-facing 4x4 right-triangle:
*
**
***
****

Sample Output #2:


Please enter a value for the size: 5
This is the requested 5x5 box:
*****
*****
*****
*****
*****
This is the requested right-facing 5x5 right-triangle:
*
**
***
****
*****
This is the requested left-facing 5x5 right-triangle:
*
**
***
****

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*****

Sample Output #3:


Please enter a value for the size: 8
This is the requested 8x8 box:
********
********
********
********
********
********
********
********
This is the requested right-facing 8x8 right-triangle:
*
**
***
****
*****
******
*******
********
This is the left-facing requested 8x8 right-triangle:
*
**
***
****
*****
******
*******
********

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Lab5C: Say “please”
Write a program that prints the following message:
If you would like to stop this program, say “please”.

Afterwards, prompt the user for input. If the user enters “please”, terminate the program. Otherwise,
print the message above and prompt the user to input again. The program should only terminate if the
user enters “please”.

User input in bold.


Sample Output #1:
If you would like to stop this program, say "please": please
Program complete

Sample Output #2:


If you would like to stop this program, say "please": pLeAsE
If you would like to stop this program, say "please": Please
If you would like to stop this program, say "please": please
Program complete

Sample Output #2:


If you would like to stop this program, say "please": no
If you would like to stop this program, say "please": nah
If you would like to stop this program, say "please": nuh-uh
If you would like to stop this program, say "please": ok fine
If you would like to stop this program, say "please": please
Program complete

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