There has been a concerted effort nationwide to bring coding curriculum to young students, with a plethora of examples ranging from extracurricular programs to lessons embedded into core studies. Now ...

Using count-controlled iteration can lead to fewer programming errors and more flexible programs. As can be seen above, using iteration makes a program simpler, less error-prone and more flexible.

According to this ACM article, the seven coding constructs that have been the most frequent source of bugs are function calls, assignments, conditions, pointers, uses of NULL, variable declarations, ...