Iteration vs. Looping

Now I am going to discuss the difference between looping and iteration.

Looping occurs when you tell your program to do something a certain number of times.

Iteration occurs when you have a collection of data (for example, an array), and you operate on each member of that collection.

For example, if I tell my program to print out the phrase “I love programming!” five times, that’s looping. If I tell my program to enumerate over the array [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and add 10 to each number, that’s iteration.