🎯 Learning Intention

Today I will learn how while Loops can model IT troubleshooting steps and understand how repetition supports system recovery.

✅ Success Criteria

I can explain how a loop in Python is like repeating troubleshooting steps, and I can write a simple while loop loop that models retry logic.

🌍 Why Are We Learning This?

Technicians rarely fix a system on the first try — they repeat steps until the problem is solved. Programming uses the same idea: loops that keep running until the condition is met.

🧠 Warm-Up – Tech Journal Prompt

💡 “Think of a time you had to try more than once to fix or finish something (schoolwork, tech, even cooking). What did repeating teach you?”

📚 Word of the Day

Loop

• Definition: A sequence of instructions that repeats until a condition is met.
• Sentence: “The script used a while loop to keep checking for a Wi-Fi connection.”
• Why it matters: Loops save time and mirror the way humans troubleshoot.

📣 Formative Lecture & Mini-Demo (12–15 min)

• A+ Link: Troubleshooting often repeats (check power, restart, test again).
• Python Link: Show a while loop example:

connected = False
attempts = 0

while not connected and attempts < 3:
    print("Checking Wi-Fi...")
    attempts += 1
    # pretend to test connection
    if attempts == 2:
        connected = True
        print("Connected on attempt", attempts)

print("Done.")