Chapter 3. Branching, Looping, and Creating Methods

Today we're going to get some more essential Java programming under our belts. We'll see three crucial techniques here—branching, looping, and creating methods. These are all basic skills for the JSP programmer, and we'll need them in our programming arsenal throughout the book. Here's an overview of today's topics:

  • Branching statements—. if and switch

  • Looping statements—. for, while, and do-while

  • Creating methods

  • Passing data to methods

  • Returning data from methods

Looping statements—
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