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At the heart of any programming language are iteration and conditional execution. Iteration is the repetition of a section of code until a condition changes. Conditional execution is making a choice between two or more actions (one of which may be to do nothing) based on a condition.
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Johnson, C.F.A. (2010). Looping and Branching. In: Pro Bash Programming. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1998-9_3
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