TableOfValues

Table of Values

/*** Table of Values *************************************
Marla is a math student.  She needs to draw graphs and analyse them.
This is easier with a table of values for the function.
The TAB character \t makes the columns line up properly.
**********************************************************/

Loops

A loop causes commands to repeat over and over again.

   for(float x = 0; x <= 5; x = x + 0.5)

The for(...) loop causes the variable X to :

start counting at X = 0
keep counting while (as long as) X is smaller or equal to 5
add 0.5 before repeating

So X has the following values: 0 , 0.5 , 1.0 , 1.5 , 2.0 , 2.5 , ..... , 4.5 , 5.0.

At each value of X, the value of Y is calculated and then X and Y are printed.
The control character "\t" is use to create a TAB that lines up the values in two columns.
This creates a table of values as shown in the output box above.

Practice

Download the program, run it and check that the output is correct.
Change the Y calculation to calculate y = 3x - 4
Change the for... command so that X counts : 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , .... 10
Change the program to produce this table of values:
   x           y = x*x - x
   5           20
   6           30
   7           42
   8           56
   9           72
   10         90
Change the program so that it asks the user to input the starting value for X and the ending value for X.
Use the following commands to do the input:

int start = int(input("Starting value for x"));
int end = int(input("Ending value for x"));

Then change the for.. loop so that X counts from start to end.
Make X count backward, from 10 down to 0, like this:

for(int x = 10; x >= 0; x = x-1)