© German Gonzalez-Morris and Ivor Horton 2020
G. Gonzalez-Morris, I. HortonBeginning Chttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5976-4_3

3. Making Decisions

German Gonzalez-Morris1  and Ivor Horton2
(1)
Santiago, Chile
(2)
STRATFORD UPON AVON, UK
 

In this chapter, you’ll greatly extend the range of programs you can write and the flexibility you can build into them by adding one of the most powerful programming tools to your inventory: the ability to compare the values of expressions and, based on the outcome, choose to execute one set of statements or another. This means that you will be able to control the sequence in which statements are executed.

In this chapter, you’ll learn
  • How to make decisions based on arithmetic comparisons

  • What logical operators are and ...

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