A Programmer’s Guide to Java® SE 8 Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)

6. Control Flow

6.1 Overview of Control Flow Statements

Control flow statements govern the flow of control in a program during execution, meaning the order in which statements are executed in a running program. There are three main categories of control flow statements:

• Selection statements: if, if-else, and switch.

• Iteration statements: while, do-while, basic for, and enhanced for.

• Transfer statements: break, continue, return, try-catch-finally, throw, and assert.

Only the basic form of the try-catch-finally construct is covered here, ...