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Conditionals and Iteration
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."—Lewis Carroll, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
In the previous chapter, we looked at Python's built-in data types. Now that you are familiar with data in its many forms and shapes, it's time to start looking at how a program can use it.
According to Wikipedia:
In computer science, control flow (or flow of control) is the order in which individual statements, instructions or function calls of an imperative program are executed or evaluated.
In order to control the flow of a program, we have two main weapons: conditional programming (also known as branching) and looping. We can use them in ...
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