Overview

In this long lesson, students learn to use for loops to process lists (arrays) of data in a variety of ways to accomplish various tasks like searching for a particular value, or finding the smallest value in a list. Students also reason about linear vs. binary search.

Vocab

• for loop - A typical looping construct designed to make it easy to repeat a section of code using a counter variable. The for loop combines the creation of a variable, a boolean looping condition, and an update to the variable in one statement.

New Code

• for(var i=0; i<4; i++){ //code }
• function myFunction(n){ //code }

Resources

• Activity Guide - Minimum Card Algorithm - Activity Guide (copy as MS Word, Google Doc)

• Activity Guide - Card Search Algorithm - Activity Guide (copy as MS Word, Google Doc)