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Infinite Loops

The Python programming language doesn’t have a dedicated construct for infinite loops, but it’s easy enough to create a while loop that runs forever.

Dependencies​

Students need to have these skills before learning this skill:

Goal​

When you teach this skill, your goal is to make it so that students can write code that looks like this:

while True:
    name = input("Enter you name: ")
    print("You are")
    print(name)

Activities​

Here are some activities that you can do in order to teach this skill.

Writing on the board​

  1. Write this code on the board:

    while True:
        favorite_color = input("What is your favorite color? ")

  2. Ask students what they think that code is going to do.

  3. Run the code and show students what it actually does.

  4. Explain to students why the code does what it does.