Chapter 4. Controlling Program Flow and Performing Calculations

Thus far, you have learned about operators, keywords, variables, and statements. This hour teaches you about specific kinds of statements—equations. For our purposes, an equation is a statement that contains an operator and variable operands.

Almost every kind of statement, in every program you will write, will use one or more of the operators in this hour. Operators enable you to control program flow, perform arithmetic calculations, and concatenate and format text data.

In this hour, you will learn

  • About operator count

  • How to write common kinds of equations

  • How to perform data comparisons

  • How to use truth tables to manage data

What Goes into an Equation

An equation is a statement that contains ...

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