Why does he start the counter at 1 instead of zero?

Hi Justin Warren ,

Yes, like you said, he could have effectively made it like that, and it would have worked. Both of these do the same thing:

(var i = 0; i < 10; i++)
// or
(var i = 1; i <= 10, i += 1)

The only difference I see, though, is that later if/when things start getting a little bit more complex, and maybe you want to use or interact specifically with some of the items in that cycle or whatever, if you do it the second way, the value of i will be the number of the item you're going through. Although now dealing with divs and colors that probably doesn't make a lot of sense, |o| but later in this course, if I'm not wrong, you''l deal with students and their data, when you're there remember this and you'll see what I mean. If i represents students in a list, rather than just pure cycles or divs, when i is 3, for instance, that means you're dealing with the third student in the list, whereas with the other method, because you've started at zero, i would probably be 2 instead in the third student.

A little bit different to put it into words, but what I mean is, when i's value is 3, you're effectively dealing with the third item in the cycle, as opposed to the first way to do it, where you're going to be dealing probably with the index number (if loping through an array, for example) but not with the 'sequential order' number, if that makes any sense.