Why use "continue"?

I really enjoy your teaching style and the other videos, but I have to point out, that this is a horrible way to teach people about loops. I don't think it's considered "good practice" to use infinite while loops. There may be cases where an infinite loop with a "break" statement might be the best thing to do, but in most cases it is not! I don't think it's wise to teach people who are new to programming that it's good to use infinite loops. Yes, if we wouldn't have used an infinite loop this script would have been a bit more complicated, but usually you really should put a logical statement in the loop condition.

The second thing which is just blatantly wrong is the explanation of "continue" at the end of the loop. The loop will continue anyways when the end of the while block is reached! Putting the continue statement there is just wrong, you would use the continue statement in a case where you have some sort of if-condition and then you want to jump over the rest of the loop block.

For example:

while new_item != "DONE":
     if new_item == "Apple":
        my_list.append("Apple")
        continue
     my_list.append(new_item)

Maybe this is explained in the upcoming videos in greater detail and all of this will be corrected. But a little sidenote, that this is a simplified example and you shouldn't code like this if you write a "real" program would be really great.

[MOD: added ```python formatting -cf]