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3. The Control Statements

Alex Vasilev¹  

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Department of Software Systems and Technologies, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

 

I was sitting quietly, peacefully. Then I got hungry. Further, as if in a fog.

—ALF (TV series)

This chapter discusses control statements, which are instructions designed to create branch points in a program and instructions to repeat statement blocks. In other words, it covers the conditional, loop, and selection statements.

The if Conditional Statement

The conditional if statement allows you to execute different blocks of commands depending ...