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JavaScript

Posted by cyber voyager
cyber voyager
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What iterating and expression mean?

What iterating and expression mean in JavaScript?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Here are some basic definitions:

"Iterating" means "doing something in a loop", for example: when you have a list of things and you want to print out the name of each one. Doing that would involve "iterating" over that list.

And "expression" is any group of names and/or symbols that together result in a value. For example: "12 + 7" is an expression that has a value of 19. It's not always possible to determine the exact value of an expression when reading (or writing) it (like: "randompic() + lower"), but it's enough to know that it will have one when the code is actually running.