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1. Title:
   While Loops - JavaScript Basics
2. Description:

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   Hey James, wasn't it kind of annoying that you had to type out
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   the same if statement twice?
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   >> Yeah. I think I broke one of the cardinal rules of programming: don't
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   repeat yourself.
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   >> Mm-hm.
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   Yeah.
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   And with that in mind,
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    I think it's probably time that we should talk about loops.
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    >> So is that why we're looking at an animated GIF?
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    >> Okay. That's one reason.
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    The second is because that is an awesome GIF.
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    But really, I think the important part here is that a GIF repeats itself
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    automatically.
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    We don't have to tell a GIF to play itself again, it just does it.
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    And in fact, JavaScript gives us a few tools to do this as well.
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    And we're going to go ahead and start with a while loop.
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    >> A while loop lets us repeat a piece of code so
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    long as some condition evaluates to true.
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    Once it doesn't evaluate to true, we exit the while loop.
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    The syntax is while condition.
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    And then in curly braces, some sort of code here.
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    So for this one we have doSomething();.
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    >> Hey let's let's show an example.
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    >> Okay. While(cameron.job ==="course dev") should make courses.
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    >> I like that example.
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    Notice how this is similar to python, but it includes conditions in parentheses,
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    and actions and curly braces, just like with if statements.
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    Remember, if the condition evaluates to true,
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    we'll do the action, then ask ourselves again, is the condition true?
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    We'll continue following this loop.
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    Until the condition is no longer true, at which point will exit the loop.
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    Over here, so long as my job is course developer, I'll keep making courses.
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    The while loop will ask itself again, is Cameron still a course developer?
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    If so, make courses.
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    Until at some point,
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    when my job is no longer course developer, at which point will exit the loop.
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    >> How might that happen?
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    >> Hm.
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    Perhaps there's a limit on how many courses I can make.
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    10 courses maximum.
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    You know what?
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    Let's see what this looks like in code.
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    Outside of the loop,
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    I'll create an iterator called courses, which is going to start at 0.
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    This is going to keep track of how many courses I've made.
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    After making a course,
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    I'm going to add 1 to the number of courses that I've made.
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    Let's add an if statement to our loop that checks if the number of courses I've
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    made is 10.
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    And if so, changes my job to learning specialist.
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    Afterwards, the loop exits.
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    >> Interesting.
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    Let's check to see if that works.
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    Here's the make course function that console logs Made a course every time
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    it's run.
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    And lets console.log,(cameron.job) when we're finished running the loop.
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    So, when we run it,
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    we can see that it's printed made a course to the counsel log 10 times.
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    And then when it finished,
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    it printed out learning specialist, Cameron's new job.