Why is the increment by one in the break loop placed at the end, and in the loop with continue at the beginning?

Question

Java

There are two codes

String players[] = {"David", "Daniel", "Anna", "Gregory"};
        int totalPlayers = players.length;
 int counter =0;
        while (counter< totalPlayers){
            if (counter == 3){
                break;
        }
            String thePlayer = players[counter];
            System.out.println("While-Break Congratulations, "+thePlayer+ "!");
            counter++;
        }

and

String players[] = {"David", "Daniel", "Anna", "Gregory"};
        int totalPlayers = players.length;
 int counter=0;
         while (counter < totalPlayers){
            counter++;
         String thePlayer = players[counter];
        if (thePlayer.equals("David")){
             continue;
         }
         System.out.println("While equals Congratulations, "+ thePlayer+ "!");
        }

Why is the counter++ operation in the first code snippet; goes at the end of the cycle, and in the second at the beginning?

Answer 1

Because the code does different things.
In the first case, the first 3 people will receive congratulations, and then break will throw us out of the loop.
In the second case, by incrementing counter , we skip "David" and congratulate the last 3 people, while falling into ArrayIndexOutOfBound due to the fact that we first incremented counter , and then tried to take an element array with index 4.