While loop. It won’t add +1 to A. Never ending continue. Pls help

Question

Condition. If C is less than 5 then the loop will continue, else it will end. A will increase by 1 after every completed loop.

A = 1
B = A + 1
C = A + B
while C < 5:
print (“continue”)
A += 1

Answer 1

Try this.

A = 1
B = A + 1
C = A + B
while C < 5:
print (“continue”)
A += 1
C= A + B

Answer 2

you must place C=A+B inside loop

Answer 3

No problem! Well, programs only run line per line. If line has passed, it won't return unless it's an order.
"While" creates a block ("area") for you and that area will be repeated while the condition is true.
The reason break works is that it stops the iterations around while, for and other blocks functions, and continue after their delimited area.
I recommend trying to see how FOR works, also how DO... WHILE works. They are different, but can do same result. Search for it, will be nice for you.

EDIT: Changed the word object to function, to avoid confusion

Answer 4

C is never higher than 5 by this way. You should add C= A+B after while, so it could repeat.

Answer 5

Let's follow your program line per line so you can understand better.

A = 1 //A=1
B = A + 1 //B=2
C = A + B //C=3
while C < 5:
print (“continue”)
A += 1 //A=2 on first step
C= A + B //C=2+2=4 on first step

//C is < 5. So redo all instructions

On second step:
A+=1 //A=3
C=A+B //C=3+2=5
//C is 5, so won't do anything anymore.

Answer 6

that one didnt work. i even put a break and it did stop once. its suppose to run the program until it becomes false.

Answer 7

that works. thank you. i was stump for hours with this. i never thought putting C...below

Answer 8

so it ran twice and stopped

Answer 9

make sense now. i wanted to change my print to say loop so i did this print (“loop”) but i wanted to count to loop 1, loop 2 so now i put a variable loop=1 on the top above while after the C=A+B. how do i make it count to loop 1 loop 2

Answer 10

You can add another variable, start with the desired number and increment inside the while loop