@Ctrl major props on such a detailed explanation breh , i literally spent the last 3 hours rereading your answer but it finally made sense to me, so lets say the program were to keep "counting" people the next set past 4 would be
4=4+1 correct? which would "equal" 5, which would be our next "0"
took me a minute to understand that 0 aint per se actually the numerical zero but could equal a "get set" command if need be
dunno if i even said that right
No problem.
Correct, for N = N + 1, on the next iteration, 5 would become the new value of N.
And yeah, that 0 is just a value that we deliberately set for N before doing anything else.
Its value is a numerical 0, but it can be updated to a new value when we use the assignment operator ("=").
It might be easier to visualize at first if we keep the variable name on the left, and substitute its value on the right.
So when N is 0, instead of writing 0 = 0 + 1 or N = N + 1, we can write it out as:
N = 0 + 1 (N gets set to the value of 0 + 1)
N = 1 (The right side is simplified so that we now have: N gets set to 1)
And then
N = 1 + 1
N = 2
N = 2 + 1
N = 3
N = 3 + 1
N = 4
Hopefully that clears that up for anyone else who may have been having trouble.
go for it breh, nothing to lose everything to gain, this is my second time trying something like this, Stanford has something similar last year but i dropped out, course was too difficult, this one is easier but still challenging
