Repetition is another really useful function of programming.
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💡 A for loop is useful when you know how many times an instruction needs to be repeated.
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I want to repeat saying “Happy birthday!” 10 times. This is similar to what Mark Zuckerberg mentions in the video above without sending the message to individual users.
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💡 The local variable is similar to any other variable in a code file. It only exists in the for loop however. it can be named any suitable name. For example, if I am saying 5 times I could change i to greetingNumber.
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for greetingNumber in range(5):
print("G'day mate")
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The local variable is just a number. See what happens below when I print the local variable out.
https://replit.com/@bitFez/forexample1#main.py
The range is set as 5. So the instruction will repeat 5 times. Did you notice counting started at 0?