Right, so the things we want you to take away from this are, get into the habit of using pseudo code when you sit down to start a problem, write out what are the steps.

好，这儿我想大家明白的就是,养成解决问题时先写伪代码的好习惯,把步骤都写出来,我想要告诉你们的是一个好的程序员。

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And it becomes a powerful way of reasoning about the code, a powerful way of using the code, so those notions of specs are really important.

以保证你写对代码,这将成为分析代码,使用代码的重要手段,所以规范说明的概念。

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At the end of the day, you can implement the exact same program using a while loop that you can using a for loop, it's just your code is going to look slightly different.

最终，你可以执行这个程序,再使用for循环的地方使用while循环，这只是使你的代码看起来稍微有点不同。

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to do sqrt, or square root-- no, I'm going to square root use sqrt, that's the name I'm using here-- square root a hundred different places in some piece of code. Without function, I'd have to copy that piece of code everywhere.

让我做一下准备,想象一下我要调用sqrt或者-,不，我会调用sqrt函数,这是我在这里用的名字，我得把这段代码到处复制。

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