Counting Down

If you want to do the opposite, starting from a number like 100 and count down to 1, the pattern will be similar.

You still have some variable tracking the current number, but with a loop whose condition is that the number is greater than the number you want to stop at, and a line at the bottom of the loop which decrements the current number.

int currentNumber = 100;
while (currentNumber >= 1) {
    System.out.println(currentNumber);
    currentNumber--;
}

Similar to when counting up if the condition was not currentNumber >= 1 and instead was currentNumber > 1, the loop would stop at 2

int currentNumber = 100;
// Stops at 2
while (currentNumber > 1) {
    System.out.println(currentNumber);
    currentNumber--;
}