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Java Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   Java Programming for Beginners Learn the fundamentals of programming with Java

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788296298
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff
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While and do...while loops

Welcome to the introductory lesson on loops. At the end of this section, we'll have command over Java's while and do...while loops. I'm pretty excited about this because loops allow us to execute a block of Java code over and over again as many times as we see fit. This is a pretty cool step in our learning process because the ability to perform small tasks many times in rapid succession is one of the things that makes computers better at certain tasks than humans are:

  1. To begin this topic, let's create a new NetBeans project, enter the main method, and simply declare an integer and give it a value. We can choose any positive value. We're going to ask our program to print out the phrase Hello World a number of times equal to the value of our integer.
  1. To do this, we'll employ a while loop. The while loop syntax looks a...
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