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1.4 - Conditions and Loops

This lesson teaches how to write Small Basic programs that utilize conditions and loops. It covers the use of If, Then, Else, and loop structures like For and While to control program flow based on logical conditions. Additionally, it includes a practical exercise for converting student scores into letter grades based on specified criteria.

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1.4 - Conditions and Loops

This lesson teaches how to write Small Basic programs that utilize conditions and loops. It covers the use of If, Then, Else, and loop structures like For and While to control program flow based on logical conditions. Additionally, it includes a practical exercise for converting student scores into letter grades based on specified criteria.

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Microsoft® Small Basic

Conditions and Loops

Estimated time to complete this lesson: 2 hours


Conditions and Loops

In this lesson, you will learn how to:

Write programs that carry out different


instructions based on whether one or more
logical conditions are true.

Write programs that repeat instructions


until a specific event occurs.
Conditions in Small Basic Programs

Would you like to specify conditions that control how your program runs (or
whether it runs at all)?

Let’s look at the following program:

This program instructs the computer to display "Happy New Year" only if
today is January 1st.

Notice that this program contains the If, Then, and EndIf keywords.
Conditions in Small Basic Programs

Now, let’s write a program in which


you specify an alternate action to
perform if the condition is false.

Depending on when you run the program, the


computer displays one of the following results:
Conditions in Small Basic Programs

In programming, you can do that same thing in more than one way. As a
programmer, you can choose the best way.

In this example, you might have


noticed that the second condition
in the program repeats a lot of
information in the first condition.

Let’s reduce the repetition by


using the Else keyword.

Both programs give the same result, but you can use fewer If, Then, and EndIf
keywords if you use the Else keyword.
Conditions in Small Basic Programs

Let’s look at another example…


You are writing a complex
program, and you want to check
whether the user typed an even
number or an odd number.

OUTPUT

Notice the use of If, Then, Else,


and EndIf in the program.
Conditions in Small Basic Programs

When you write a program, you can specify as many conditions as you want by
using the ElseIf keyword. You can also specify one or more operations for the
computer to perform, depending on which condition is true when your program
is run.

Let’s look at this with an


example.

In this example, each condition


contains a unique statement
that the computer evaluates.
When the computer evaluates
a statement as true, the
computer performs the
operation for that condition
and then proceeds to the end.
Loops in Small Basic Programs

You can use a loop to instruct the


computer to run one or more
statements more than once.

You can use a For loop if you know


how many times you want the
computer to repeat the
instructions.

You can use a While loop if you


want the program to repeat the
instructions until a specific
condition is true.

So, let’s explore some loop statements…


Loops in Small Basic Programs

Let’s start by writing a program that contains a For..EndFor loop.

In general, you use a For..EndFor loop to run code a specific number of times.
To manage this type of loop, you create a variable that tracks how many times
the loop has run.

Click the button on the


Toolbar.
In this example, the variable contains a value that increases by 1 every time
that the loop runs.
Loops in Small Basic Programs

Let’s use this concept to print the multiplication table for the number 5.

OUTPUT
Loops in Small Basic Programs

In the previous example, the value of the


counter variable in a For loop increases by 1 For example, you can
every time the loop runs. However, you can increase the value by 2 if
increase the value by another number if you you write the following
use the Step keyword. code:
Loops in Small Basic Programs

If you don’t know the loop count before you write a program, you
can create a While loop instead of a For loop.

When you create a While loop, you


specify a condition that is true when the
loop starts. But the computer evaluates Let’s write the following
the condition every time that the loop program to demonstrate
repeats. When the condition becomes the While loop:
false, the loop stops.
Let’s Summarize…

Congratulations! Now you know how to:

Write programs that evaluate logical conditions and perform operations


based on those results.
Write programs that repeat one or more instructions either a specific
number of times or based a logical condition.
Show What You Know

Create a program to convert one or more


student scores from a percentage to a letter
grade. First, ask the user to specify how many
grades will be calculated. Then ask the user to
specify the first percentage, and convert it to a
letter grade based on the following criteria:

 If the percentage is more than 75,


convert it to an A.
 If the percentage is less than 75 but more
than or equal to 60, convert it to a B.
 If the percentage is less than 60 but more
than or equal to 35, convert it to a C.
 If the percentage is less than 35, convert
it to a D.

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