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Conditional Control: IF Statements
In almost every program that you write, you need to make decisions. For example, if it is the end of the fiscal year, bonuses must be distributed to the employees based on their salaries. To compute employee bonuses, a program needs to have a conditional control. In other words, it needs to employ a selection structure.
Conditional control allows you to control the flow of execution of the program based on a condition. In programming terms, it means that the statements in the program are not executed sequentially. Rather, one group of statements or another will be executed depending on how the condition is evaluated. ...
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