pxt-calliope/docs/lessons/looper.md
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# looper blocks lesson
Learn to control blinking LEDs.
### @video td/videos/looper-0
## Topic
For Loop
## Quick links
* [activity](/microbit/lessons/looper/activity)
* [challenges](/microbit/lessons/looper/challenges)
* [quiz](/microbit/lessons/looper/quiz)
* [quiz answers](/microbit/lessons/looper/quiz-answers)
## Class
Year 7
## Prior learning/place of lesson in scheme of work
Learn how to control a blinking LED. We will be learning how to create a blinking app using the for loop as well as simple commands, such as plot and pause.
## Documentation
```docs
for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
}
basic.showNumber(0)
basic.pause(100)
```
## Objectives
* learn how to repeat code a fixed number of times
* learn how to show a number on the LED screen, one digit at a time (scrolling from left to right)
* learn how to pause program execution for the specified number of milliseconds
* learn how to arithmetic operators operate on numbers and return a number