Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

3 Conditionals

In previous chapters your code led a relatively simple life: you declared some simple constants and variables and then assigned them values. But of course, an application really comes to life – and programming becomes a bit more challenging – when the application makes decisions based on the contents of its variables. For example, a game may let players leap a tall building if they have eaten a power-up. You use conditional statements to help applications make these kind of decisions.

if/else

if/else statements execute code based on a specific logical condition. You have a relatively simple either/or situation and depending on the result one branch of code or another (but not both) runs. Consider Knowhere, ...