Loops

Make the most repetitive tasks easier by learning Swift loops!

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Key Concepts

Review core concepts you need to learn to master this subject

Ranges

stride() Function

for-in Loop

continue Keyword

break Keyword

Using Underscore

while Loop

Ranges

let zeroToThree = 0...3

// zeroToThree: 0, 1, 2, 3

Ranges created by the ... operator will include the numbers from the lower bound to (and includes) the upper bound.

Loops

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What are Loops?
Every day, we repeat a lot of things and we might not even think about it. For instance, when we cook, we might have to prepare our ingredients by chopping them up. We chop and chop and chop until …
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Repeating Tasks
Before we get to writing our own loops, let’s explore what programming would be like if we couldn’t use loops. Let’s say we want to make a program that prints “Hip Hip Hooray!” 5 times: print(“…
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The for-in Loop
Now that we can appreciate what loops do for us, let’s start with the for-in loop. Below is the general syntax: for placeholderVariable in someSequence { for-in loop body } We use [for-in](ht…
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The stride() Function
for-in loops also give us the flexibility to choose how we want to iterate over a sequence with the stride() function: stride(from: a, to: b, by: c) Notice, in order to use the stride() function…
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Iterating Through Strings
Aside from sequences of numbers, we can also loop over Strings! After all, a string is a collection of characters. Let’s say we wanted to look over a string and see if it contains “z”. In a progr…
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Using Underscore
Remember our “Smelly code” chalkboard? Smelly code, or often referred to as having a code smell refers to bad progra…
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The continue Keyword
When iterating through a sequence, we might not need to use every single value. In these cases, it’d be nice to just tell our loop to skip a value. That’s where continue comes in. If we wanted to …
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The break Keyword
Let’s say we need to find out what “respect” means in the dictionary. We would iterate through the pages of the dictionary until we found the word “respect” and read the definition. Although we had…
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While Loop
Another loop we can use is the while loop. This loop allows us to continue iterating for as long as a condition remains true. while condition { // Execute while condition remains true } while…
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Review
for _ in 1…10 { print(“Great job!”) } print(“Now time to review loops!”) The above syntax should now look familiar! In this lesson, we went over: * Manually repeating tasks. * for-in loops a…
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