CPE 112 – Computer Methods in Engineeing

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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CPE 112

Guidelines for Choosing
a Looping Statement

•For count-controlled loops, think for.

•If you know it will execute at least once, do-while is good for event control. •If you don’t know whether the loop will ever execute, use a pretest loop (while or for).

•When in doubt, use a while statement.