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Have students analyze the effects of changing pieces of a loop to improve their understanding of loop structure.

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  • Have students change each part of a loop’s three main components and explain what happens after each change.
    • The three main parts of a loop are the initialization, the condition, and the incrementation.
  • This activity helps foster an in-depth understanding of all three loop components that can’t be achieved by writing loops alone.
Have students analyze the effects of changing pieces of a loop to improve their understanding of loop structure

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