Objectives

Students will be able to:

• understand that a block of code often needs to run more than once.
• understand that a loop can be designed to run a block of code more than once.
• understand that looping is known as iterating ie repeating
• understand that a loop can be controlled by a variable
• understand pseudocode for a count-controlled loop
• understand a basic for loop in Python.

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Challenge

In a future world, a king called Jackson reigns. Anyone with the name Jackson is always greeted with maximum respect.

A computer program does the following 1000 times:

• inputs a name
• if the name is Jackson, it prints out a message 7 times: Oh Jackson, thou art light and sound!
• Otherwise a message Hi name. is displayed and the user is asked to enter a secret password. If the password entered is correct, the system displays ENTER! otherwise the system displays NO STRANGERS ALLOWED!

the secret password is j@ck50n

Find ways to make your solution modular!

Talk to your classmates as you design your program. Do they have some ideas you could use?

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