Teaching the humble for loop
Show then how the loop can be unfolded into a while loop:
int i = 0 // Step 1
while (i&lt; 100) { // Step 2
    // Do something
    i++ // Step 3
}

Explain that the order is derived from that unfolding.
You could start out by only teaching while loops, forcing them to make these while loops with iterators, then showing that for loops are a condensed of those while loops with incrementing variables.