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Understanding Loops: For Loop vs While Loop

Let's start with A Dosa Story

My brother and I went out for dosa one evening.
He confidently ordered 3 dosas upfront, knowing exactly how many he wanted.
I, on the other hand, ordered one at a time, eating and then deciding if I wanted another — until I, too, stopped at 3.

Now, let’s map this to coding logic:
➡️ My brother is a For Loop.
He knew the count already and repeated the action (eating dosa) for a set number of times.
It was structured, controlled, and predictable.

➡️ I represent a While Loop.
I didn’t decide the limit at the beginning. I kept going while I was hungry — the stopping condition was dynamic.
The process depended on checking a condition after each round (each dosa).

This simple dosa experience perfectly illustrates the key difference:
🔹 For Loop: Used when you know in advance how many times to repeat.
🔹 While Loop: Used when repetition depends on a condition being true.

Both loops are essential, just like both of us needed 3 dosas — but the approach was different!

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[nirms]

Yaaru nee romba easy ah Puriya vachiteenga . Thank you bro .

[Aravinthsilva]

For loop is definite loop, used for achieving certain quantity of loops, example loops for 3 times or 5 times.
While is a indefinite loop, loop will only stop declared condition is achieved, example - loop stops when a=Black colour ( when black colour is achieved, loop stops, no matter the loop quantity).
Do-while loop, used for performing atleast one loop during iteration.
Do-while loop is fancy and used in app onboarding and ending or re onboarding

[SIVANANTHANKumar]

For& while-entry check loop
Do while-exit check loop

[asusgaming]

For loop used for number of iteration can be performed will be defined And while loop makes the loop runs to satisfy the condition given (it's my type of understanding)

[joyboymdl]

For loops provide concise iteration over sequences.
While loops offer flexibility for dynamic conditions.
Having both improves code readability and efficiency.
It allows developers to choose the most suitable loop.

[EvilOne-]

Both for and while loops can do the same task, but the syntax and use-case make them different.
[one is for counting, the other is for conditions]
#for loop
for i in range(1, 6):
print(i)
#while
i = 1
while i <= 5:
print(i)
i += 1

[dineshsrinivasan]

For loop is controlled statement (we can control numbers of loop ) but while loop is a loop that can run infinite loop when condition met it will stop otherwise it is uncomfortable

[Rakshanaramesh-rs]

FOR loop: we know how many times the loop should run
While loop: loop runs until certain condition is true(until hunger goes away is the condition here)

[bharathtechie]

for loop condition will be checked initially, in while loop the condition will checked finally

[MeenakshiMeena-nw]

For loop the condition can be implied at least of one time if the condition is not satisfied and while loop is implied if the condition is satisfied

[natarajadithya]

Any decision making program can be used in while loop for putting more no of inputs until breaking the statement under a condition

[SowndaryaNi]

John anna, front end developer la javascript and html thavira mathathulam video podunga anna

[Anbu-fp]

bro machine learning algorithms patti sollunga bro
explain one by one

[SathyaT-lvmm]

Because for loop can kept perticular range but while loop can run default meet it can be break the loop

[TharunN-cjto]

In for loop iteration, initialisation, updation are defined in kya single line but not in while loop we need to define it in three steps

[karthishj]

Access card while loop if the employee has the access and granted the door will open will not open

[mohankrishnann]

😂3 dosa - for loop sekirama potu eduthutu vanthuruvanga😅
Ana oru oru dosa - while loop late panuvanga performance ku kaga tha bro 😅 😊

[Thunderboy]

Then why 2 loops bro.tell the fact bro

[arunediting]

Bro dotnet programming tutorial poduga bro

[arokiaking]

I started learning python coding
Thanks your video❤❤