Breaking Down the Importance of Loops and Arrays

Now that we have had a chance to go through and learn a bit more about the arrays and the loops, what they are used for, and some of the codings that can allow us to get them done, it is likely that you are curious as to why both of these topics are going to be so important in some of the work that we are doing in our C++ language.

Why would we want to learn how to use some types of coding that seem really complicated and hard to work in the first place?

Couldn’t we just skip over this and find something that is a bit easier to handle and still get the codes done?

Even if you just want to focus on some of the basics that come with any language, at some point, you will want to expand out to some of the things that are a bit more complex in order to get your codes to behave in the right manner and to really make some good and strong programs in the process.

You may like that you are able to handle some really simple tasks and can write out some simple codes in no time, but you are not going to get too far working with those basics without progressing to some of the harder stuff.

The basics will provide you with some of the foundations that you need.

And we spent our time on those in the first few chapters that are found in this guidebook.

But now it is time for us to move on and take a closer look at some of the other topics that are going to come with C++.

This helps us to learn and grow and keeps the coding from getting boring.

Even though we can agree that the loops and arrays are a bit more advanced than what you may want to do when you first start, they are going to help us to really get our codes to be as powerful as possible and will prepare us for some of the more complicated options that we need to handle as we go through the rest of this guidebook.

By all means, if you still need some more time with the basics, go back to the earlier chapters that are in this guidebook and practice some more.

We do not want to progress until we are ready.

But once you are ready to challenge yourself, you will find that these are going to help out so much.

And the next step is always going to be important when it comes to coding, as you want to make sure that you are able to progress and get so much better at the coding that you are doing.

You want to make sure that you don’t stay stagnant, and that you are able to actually progress to the next level with your programming going from the beginner level up.

The neat thing here is that there are actually quite a few things that we are able to do when it comes to handling these arrays and the loop statements.

For example, there are a lot of times when we are going to bring out the loop statements when we are working on robots and video games.

If you want to work on a code or a program that is able to handle some of the requests of the user without the programmer planning for everything along the way ahead of time, then the loop statements are going to be really great to work with.

Then there are the arrays, and they can be used in many situations as well.

The arrays are often used as part of the web pages for shopping websites because you are able to easily add in a list of variables and not have to do that much with them past the initial work during setup.

You will find that in a business or even an individual setting, there are a lot of times when you would need to create your own website.

Whether you are hoping to write that website from scratch for yourself or the client or you would like to write it for personal use, then you will find that the arrays will help to get this done in an efficient and easy manner.

Even if you decide to make things easier and work with a website that is premade, knowing how to work with these arrays and how to read some of the codes as we discussed in this guidebook, it will be easier to understand what is going on in the code and even make some of the changes that are needed to personalize that website for your needs.

There are also going to be many times, in addition to some of the options that we talked about earlier when the loops will show up in your coding and can save you time, get certain parts of the code to repeat a bunch of times if necessary, and more.

You will be able to use these in order to not write out as many things inside of your code as before simply because it will all be there, and the loops can get this all done for us with just a line or two of coding.

Think of it in this manner.

What if you were able to do some programming with a computer, and this helped to set it up to write out a program that would help us list out the numbers from one to thirty.

Or what if you would be able to get the code to create a really complex multiplication table.

You could go through and write out all of the lines that make this happen if you want, but is that really something that sounds like fun?

Go to that multiplication table.

That could be more than 100 lines of code by the time you go from one by one all the way to ten by ten.

No one wants to write out the codes that many times and you would get bored and have an extremely long program for something that is really simple to work with.

This is why the loops are going to be important to what we are doing.

Depending on what you are hoping to get done, and the loop type that you want to use, it is possible to get all of those lines of code done with a few simple lines of looping in the process.

If you are writing out a program and you think that you will need to have some of these loops show up, make sure to read through that section of this chapter again and learn about the different types that you can use, how they each work, and what you are able to do with them to help you add them into your programs as well.

As we can see here, there are a lot of benefits and uses that we will find when it comes to working with these loop statements and these arrays.

They are all going to be important to your codes, and there are actually a lot of times when we would be able to use this for our benefit as well in our own codes, even as a beginner.