I'm confuse

Hi Jake,

I'm not sure entirely what you're asking, so feel free to respond with more context for your question, but in case you're asking why we have both while and do while loops in JavaScript, it's because the while syntax won't run, ever, if its condition is false.

Do while allows us to do something once without checking any conditions, then check the condition to see if we should keep running the loop.

It's not about being perfect though! Most loops are very similar to eachother, because they all achieve a similar end - getting the same code to run over and over again (potentially with minor changes). You can do the same thing a for loop does in a while loop and vice versa.

In some cases you might have to really stretch the way the loop works to achieve it though. The different loop syntax is provided by the language for convinence.

Take a look at these three loops, they all do the same thing (well, one does something the others don't, see if you can spot what and why).

For loop

var basket = [];
var shopping_list = ["apple", "avocado", "milk", "coffee", "flour"];

// loop once for every item in shopping list
for (var i = 0; i < shopping_list.length; i++)
{
        // push the product at index i into our basket array
        basket.push(shopping_list[i]);
}

For in loop

var basket = [];
var shopping_list = ["apple", "avocado", "milk", "coffee", "flour"];

// loop through shopping list until we've operated on every item in the list
for (var product in shopping_list)
{
        // push the product from shopping list into our basket array
        basket.push(shopping_list[product]);
}

While loop

var basket = [];
var shopping_list = ["apple", "avocado", "milk", "coffee", "flour"];

// loop until our shopping list is empty
while (shopping_list.length > 0)
{
        // remove an item from shopping list and store in product
        product = shopping_list.pop();

        // store the product in our basket array
        basket.push(product);
}

I still don't get it