Beginning C: From Novice to Professional, Fourth Edition

CHAPTER 3Making Decisions

In Chapter 2 you learned how to do calculations in your programs. In this chapter, you'll take great leaps forward in the range of programs you can write and the flexibility you can build into them. You'll add 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.

What this means is that you'll be able to control the sequence in which statements are executed in a program. Up until now, all the statements in your programs have been executed strictly in sequence. In this chapter you're going to change all that.

You are going to learn the following:

• How to make decisions based on arithmetic ...