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Time' Narration
00:01 Welcome to the spoken tutorial on do-while Loop in java.
00:06 In this tutorial, you will learn about
  • do-while loop and'
  • how to use it


00:12 For this tutorial we are using

Ubuntu 11.10,

JDK 1.6 and

Eclipse 3.7

00:20 To follow this tutorial, you musthave knowledge of while loop in java.


00:25 If not, for relevant tutorials please visit our website as shown.


00:32 Here is the structure for do-while loop.


00:37 Notice that it is similar to a while loop.


00:40 It has two parts.


00:42 First is the loop running condition. And the second is the loop variable
00:51 The only difference is that the condition is written after the do block.


00:58 And so the condition is checked after the execution of the statements inside the do block


01:05 Now let us see an example.
01:07 Switch to eclipse
01:11 Here we have Eclipse IDE and the skeleton required for the rest of the code.


01:17 We have created a class DoWhileDemo and added the main method to it.



01:22 We are going to print the numbers from 1 to 10 using a do-while loop.


01:27 Type


01:29 int n equalto 1


01:32 n is going to be loop variable.
01:36 then type do
01:40 open and close braces
01:44 Inside the bracesSystem.out.println(n);
01:55 We shall print the value of n and then increment it. n equalto n plus 1;
02:05 And we do this as long as


02:08 n is less than or equal to 10


02:10 Outside the braces Type while in paranthesis(n less than equalto 10)
02:20 And close the do-while using a semi-colon
02:25 Let us see the code in action.


02:28 Save and Run.
02:37 We see that, the numbers from 1 to 10 are printed.
02:42 now Let us understand how the code is executed.
02:47 First, the value 1 is printed and then n becomes 2.


02:52 And then, the condition is checked.


02:55 since it is true, again 2 is printed and n becomes 3.


03:00 And so on till all the 10 numbers are printed and the value of n becomes 11.


03:06 When n = 11, the condition fails and the loop stops.


03:11 Now Let us print numbers from 50 to 40 in decreasing order.
03:17 So we start with 50.
03:19 Change n = 1 to n = 50.
03:23 Since we are looping from a bigger number to a smaller number, we decrement the loop variable.


03:29 So Change n = n + 1 to n = n - 1
03:34 We loop as long as n is greater than or equal to 40.


03:40 So Change the condition to n >= 40
03:48 Let us look at the output.
03:50 Save and Run.
03:57 As we can see, the numbers from 50 to 40 are printed.
04:02 Now let us try a different logic using the do-while loop.
04:10 Given a number, we shall find out if it is a perfect square or not.
04:15 First Clear the main method.
04:19 ThenType int n = 25;
04:25 We shall see if the value in n is a perfect square or not.
04:32 Then typeint x = 0;


04:37 We shall use x to store the square root of the number if it is a perfect square.
04:44 Then Type do


04:46 Open and close braces.
04:49 Inside the bracesx equal to x plus 1
04:55 And outside the braces


04:58 while in paranthesis (x into x < n)


05:06 And Close the do-while usinga semi-colon
05:10 As long a x into x is less than n, we keep incrementing the value of x.
05:16 So when the loop stops, the reverse of this condition will be true.
05:22 Which means either x into x must be equal to n.


05:26 Or it must be greater than n.
05:28 If x into x is equal to n, the number is a perfect square.


05:32 If it is not equal to n, the number is not a perfect square.
05:37 So finally, we print the condition.
05:47 System.out.println(x * x == n);
05:55 Let us see the code in action.
05:59 Save and Run. As we can see, the output is true


06:07 Let us try with other perfect square.
06:10 Change n = 25 to n = 49
06:15 Save and Run
06:20 We see that we get the true again .
06:23 Let us try with a number which is not a perfect square.
06:26 Change 49 to 23. Save and Run and


06:34 We get a false as expected.


06:37 Now let us see what happens when the value of n is 0.
06:42 Change n = 23 to n = 0 Since 0 is not a natural number, we must get a false.


06:52 Let us run the code.
06:54 Save and Run.
07:00 We see that we get false as expected.
07:05 This happens because even before the condition
07:08 x into x is less than n is checked, the value of x is incremented and it becomes 1


07:16 The loop condition fails and loop does not run.
07:20 This way, by using a do-while loop, we make sure that 0 is not considered as a perfect square.
07:26 This way, a do-while loop is used for solving a range of problems.
07:31 Specially, when the loop must run at least once.
07:37 This brings us to the end of the tutorial.


07:40 In this tutorial, we learnt about the
07:42 The do-while loop and how to use it
07:46 As an assignment for this tutorial, solve the following problem.


07:50 Given a binary number, find out its decimal equivalent. Example: 11010 => 26
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