Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins, 2nd Edition

Use a for Loop to Repeat Code

Computers are much better at repetitive tasks than humans are; you can tell the computer to do something ten times in a row and it will do exactly that, ten times, a hundred times, a million times, whatever you want. One way to do the same thing a bunch of times is to use a for loop. for is a Java keyword that lets you loop over a section of code a fixed number of times.

The for loop is a basic control structure in Java—a way to control the order of execution of your lines of code. If you need to make a bunch of blocks or spawn a lot of creepers in a Minecraft world, you’ll use a for loop. If you need to loop through all the players that are currently online, you’ll probably use a for loop (although there are ...