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Crash Course Computer Science
Programming Basics: Statements & Functions: Crash Course Computer Science #12
Season 1
Episode 12
Today, Carrie Anne is going to start our overview of the fundamental building blocks of programming languages. We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements and functions work. We aren’t going to code in a specific language, but we’ll show you how conditional statements like IF and ELSE statements, WHILE loops, and FOR loops control the flow of programs
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