Introduction to looping with while Problem Solving w/Python Ch 4 Lecture 1

Do you want to learn to code? If you're a beginner, you're in the right place! This video is part of an introductory series that will teach you to program in the popular Python programming language. In this video, we learn why most programming languages have a looping construct and how to write a conditional (while) loop. This series of videos is suitable for beginners or experienced programmers who want to learn Python. Let's have some fun learning to program with Python!

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If you want to earn credit for learning to code, take an online course at CCRI! These videos are part of the Programming Concepts course:

00:00 Why we loop
01:53 Disadvantages to repetitive code
02:44 Writing a while loop
04:34 Augmented assignment operators
07:47 Stepping through in the debugger
11:36 Constructing a while loop