Statements Flashcards
1
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Control Flow Statements
A
control the execution of other statements with logic
2
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Expression Statements
A
statements built from expressions joined by operators
3
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Expressions
A
- returns a value
- Method invocations and equations using operators are expressions
4
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Statements
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- Similar to a sentence in natural language
- Built from one or more expressions
- Uses of assignment operator, method invocations and the new keyword are all statements
5
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Block
A
a series statements between curly brackets {}
6
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Control Flow Statements: Decision
A
use boolean logic to execute one statement instead of another (if the condition has been met or not)
7
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Control Flow Statements: Loop
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repeat a statement so long as boolean expression returns true
8
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Switch statements
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-Evaluates a single expression to take an action based on the value (could have multiple execution paths based on that value)
9
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While loop
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- runs as long as boolean expression is true
- expression should eventually return false
10
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Do-while
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like a while loop but the statement
