feat: created several scratch example files for loops and conditionals

practice/loops_examples.py

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+# # Define a list of items
+# fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']
+# # Loops through defined list and prints each item as var 'fruit'
+# for fruit in fruits:
+#     print(fruit)
+
+# # For loops can iterate through the built-in range function as well, this prints all numbers (0 indexed) in the range
+# for i in range(5):
+#     print(i)
+
+# # While loops iterate while a condition is true
+# # Define 'count' var
+# count = 5
+# # While count is greater than 0, the indented lines will fire
+# while count >0:
+#     # Print the current count
+#     print(count)
+#     # This is shorthand for 'count = count - 1'
+#     count -= 1
+# # When 'while' condition is no longer true, it continues to this line (This is the end of the loop)
+# print("Blast off!")
+
+# Iterate through a range
+for i in range(10):
+    # If i equals 5 'break' the loop (in this example, only iterates 0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
+    if i == 5:
+        # stops the loop with the given condition
+        break
+    # if i can be divided by 2 with a remainder of 0 (modulo(this indicates an even number))
+    if i % 2 == 0:
+        # skip even numbers in the loop
+        continue
+    print(i)