Overview of Iterative Functions
Explore the concept of iteration in programming and how iterative functions use loops and conditional statements to repeat actions. Understand the syntax in JavaScript and practice with an example calculating factorials. This lesson prepares you to compare iteration with recursion effectively.
What is Iteration?
Iteration means repeating some steps to achieve the desired outcome. In computer programming, this may involve a mechanism, such as a loops.
Iterative code is a block of code that runs in a loop. In other words, the same code is repeated over and over again. The idea is similar to that of recursion.
As we are learning recursion, it is important to have an overview of iteration as well. You might have ...