First year at uni, during c++ basis.
The professor has just finished explaining the while cycle.
Professor: We want the code to print all numbers from 0 to 40 using a counter. How would you do?

Classmate puts up his hand: we do 40 if statements and when we reach the 40th one we stop.

Professor: *face palm*

Well, the loop is unrolled, should be faster now.

Give that man a Cookie

@qn0x noone seems to recognize renegades tbese days. Legit I once went totally unprepared to an assembly exam and wrote a no loop voting tally system. Of course it worked and of course he failed me but he said it made him laugh.

I had students I TA'd for insisting on using the while loop even after being introduced to for. So code like this wasn't uncommon:

int i = 0;
while (i < arraylength) {
// do stuff with array
i++;
}

It's as if they were either afraid of the for loop, or stated out with a while to see how it evolved and then never changed it

Well for always looked scary until we started using it! And once we did everyone knows there is no stop!

If you want to print out the numbers from 0 to 40 included it's easily to write it down into the for form...
For(int i=0; i<40; i++){cout>>i;}

Just to say... :)

@R1cc4rd0 that's a compiler error.
It's cout << i
🙃

@ElectricCoffee Ops... You're right... I always make that mistake 😅

@R1cc4rd0 it was pretty confusing to me at first, too
And to an extent it kinda still is