Computer Science GCSE
Condition-controlled iteration
What Condition-controlled iteration means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Condition-controlled iteration
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Reference: OCR
Repetition continues while or until a condition is tested, for example WHILE lives > 0 or REPEAT ... UNTIL password = "secret".
Topics that use Condition-controlled iteration
- Programming fundamentals (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- AND
- input and output
- NOT
- operator precedence
- Selection
- variables and constants
- assignment
- Boolean operators
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