My if and while loop statements aren't working

[buran]

because once counter is incremented to 5 in some of the previous iterations, it will not enter the loop at all. that is also the reason while you don't need to check counter<5 in lines 9 and 12.

 

counter = 0
while counter<5:
    print(counter)
    counter += 1

Output:
0
1
2
3
4

eventually you can change it to while<=5

counter = 0
while counter<=5:
    print(counter)
    counter += 1

Output:
0
1
2
3
4
5