Chapter 6. C Control Statements: Looping

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

  • Keywords:

    for

    while

    do while

  • Operators:

    < > >=

    <= != == +=

    *= -= /= %=

  • Functions:

    fabs()

  • C's three loop structures—while, for, and do while

  • Using relational operators to construct expressions to control these loops

  • Several other operators

  • Arrays, which are often used with loops

  • Writing functions that have return values

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