Intro to Nested Looping
Intro to Computer Science
CS1510
Dr. Sarah Diesburg
Some Things From PA02
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BMI
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These were continuous regions.
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Set up your code to handle all areas…
Some Things From PA02
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BMI
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While this is valid mathematically, it is bad form in
programming languages.
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And it causes real problems when not set up properly.
Some Things From PA02
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BMI
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Recognize that these are four related categories. This
makes it much easier to use if/elif/else.
Some Things From PA02
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BMI
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Recognize that these are four related categories. This
makes it much easier to use if/elif/else.
Some Things From PA02
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BMI
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Recognize that these are four related categories. This
makes it much easier to use if/elif/else.
Some Things From PA02
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Watch for messages that can only be printed
under certain circumstances
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The calculator program should not print that
something is invalid AND calculate the answer…
Nesting
Nesting means to place one code structure
inside of another
 Nested if statements
If (a<1):
if (a==0):
print(“Hey, this is zero”)
else:
print(“This is a negative number”)
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Nested Loops
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We can also nest loops
Can be very powerful, but tricky!
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The idea of nested looping
for x in range(1,4):
for y in range(1,5):
print (x, '*' , y , '=' , (x*y))
How many times will this print??
Finding Out if a Number is Prime
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An integer, N, is prime if it is not evenly
divisible by any of the numbers from 2 to N-1
Finding Out if a Number is Prime
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Is 41 a prime number?
Is 77 a prime number?
Finding Out if a Number is Prime
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Is 413 a prime number?
Is 419 a prime number?
Let’s Write a Design Paragraph
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Inputs?
Steps to calculate result
Outputs?
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Finding Out if a Number is Prime
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Write a program that:
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Asks for an integer greater than 2
Keeps prompting until it gets one
Checks the numbers from 2 to N-1 to see if N is
evenly divisible by that number
Prints a message either way.
So how would we change this…
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To print information about all of the numbers
from 2 to 100?
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Nested Looping