Chapter 5
Logicals and Control Structures in ProgrammingConditional Statements, Loops, and Functions
5.1 Introduction: Controlling the Flow of Execution
When a computer program is run, the commands are executed in a particular order. As discussed in Chapter 4, the order is usually top to bottom, left to right for the commands in a script. This does not always need to be the case, as a programmer can instruct the computer to follow a different order.
Many programming languages, including MATLAB, include designated keywords to change the order of executed commands. These parts of a programming language are called control structures. Additional documentation related to this chapter can be found on the MathWorks website under Control Flow.
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