Chapter 8. JavaScript: Control Statements II

 

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not every thing that counts can be counted.

 
 --Albert Einstein
 

Who can control his fate?

 
 --William Shakespeare
 

The used key is always bright.

 
 --Benjamin Franklin
 

Intelligence ... is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

 
 --Henri Bergson
 

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

 
 --Demosthenes

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn:

  • The essentials of counter-controlled repetition

  • To use the for and do...while repetition statements to execute statements in a program repeatedly.

  • To perform multiple selection using the switch selection statement.

  • To use the break and continue program-control statements ...

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