Loop over a collection with while
The while construct causes the block of code between its curly braces to be executed repeatedly until the boolean expression at the top becomes false.
In the previous lesson, you created the body of the pointsToBust function to calculate the specific number of points. In this exercise, you'll write a while loop that loops through five hands (one for each player in the game) and finds the number of points to bust for each. Writing this while loop instead of calling the pointsToBust function five times makes our program more concise and readable.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Scala
Exercise instructions
- Define a counter variable,
i. Set it equal to zero to start. - Using the counter variable
i, write awhileloop that proceeds through the loophands.lengthtimes. - Find and print the winning hand's value for the
ith hand. - Increment the counter variable.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
// Define counter variable
// Create list with five hands of Twenty-One
var hands = List(16, 21, 8, 25, 4)
// Loop through hands
___ ___ {
// Find and print number of points to bust
println(___)
// Increment the counter variable
}