Week 4 - Loops

Learning Objectives

Upon finishing this learning module, you should be able to:

• Identify strategies for controlling repetition: counters, sentinels, and flags
• Write programs that use repetition structures to solve problems

Recommended Schedule

Day 1

• Loops - try to get through Ch 5.1-5.3
• CPP Lab Basic Loops

Day 2

• Loop styles and strategies - Ch 5.4-5.5, and 5.7-5.9
• CPP Lab Loops 2

Day 3

• Finish Loop
• CPP Lab Nested Loops
• Check out assignment

Day 4

• String Basics
• String Practice worksheet
• Do assignment

Online Activity Outline

Loops

Read Ch 5.1-5.3. This video introduces the key ideas:

Do CPP Lab Basic Loops.

Read Ch 5.4-5.5 and 5.7-5.9 and watch this video:

Do CPP Lab Loops 2.

Read Ch 5.10-5.13, 5.15 and watch this video:

Do CPP Lab Loops CPPLab.

Read the rest of Ch 5.

Work on the assignment while you start preparing for next week by reading about strings below.

String Basics

Read Ch 4.8 and 10.2 (you can stop at 10.2.10). Watch this video that introduces the basics:

Go look up string on cplusplus.com - use the search box at the top, and do a search for "string". Then click on one of the functions, like "insert" and skim the documentation. You need to start getting used to looking up things - most programmers do that on the web instead of in textbooks, so start practicing!

Do the StringPractice worksheet from the files area of Elearn. Like previous practice sheets, try to predict the output for each statement then check your work against the key.