Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

5

CHAPTER

Flow of Control,Part 1: Selection

Introduction

5.1 Forming Conditions

5.1.1 Equality Operators

5.1.2 Relational Operators

5.1.3 Logical Operators

5.2 Simple Selection with if

5.3 Selection Using if/else

5.4 Selection Using if/else if

5.5 Sequential and Nested if/else Statements

5.5.1 Sequential if/else Statements

5.5.2 Nested if/else Statements

5.6 Testing Techniques for if/else Statements

5.7 Programming Activity 1: Working

with if/else

5.8 Comparing Floating-Point Numbers

5.9 Comparing Objects

5.9.1 The equals Method

5.9.2 String Comparison Methods

5.10 The Conditional Operator (?:)

5.11 The switch Statement

5.12 Programming Activity 2: Using the sw