The `break` statement is used to terminate the loop.
Do you recall our last task, where we tried to find **8** in the list?

If we want to finish our searching after we have found an element, we can use `break`.

**Look at the code below:**

numbers = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11]

# Finishing the loop when 8 is found
for i in numbers:
  if i == 8:
    print('Here is 8!')
    break
  else:
    print('This num is not 8')

You’re a real star! Keep going!

Now we will try to count all **8** in our list with the help of `continue`. 

The `continue` statement skips a block of code in the loop for the current iteration only. 

**Look at the code below:**

numbers = [2, 3, 8, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 8]
counter = 0

# Counting all 8 in the list
for i in numbers:
  if i == 8:
    counter += 1
  else:
    continue
print(counter)

We start learning Python loops with the for loop. A for loop is used for iterating over a sequence. Let's go!

With the while loop, we can execute a set of statements as long as a condition is true. We are going to work with this loop and handle different problems!

A nested loop is a loop inside a loop. Sound difficult? Don't worry! We will handle this loop!