Chapter 8. Working with Data

In This Chapter

  • Making Decisions in Code

  • Using Else

  • Other Forms of Decision Making

  • Nesting If...Else Statements

  • Selecting with Select Case

  • Looping in Visual Basic

Now that you know Visual Basic's mathematical and decision operators, you can put those operators to use in this chapter. The comparison operators enable you to set up complex decision-making and repetition statements in Visual Basic. One of the advantages that the computer offers to us is that the computer will repeat a task over and over without getting bored. In this chapter, you'll learn how to write programs that repeat sections of code.

The highlights of this chapter include the following:

  • Use the If statement to make decisions.

  • The Else branch enables ...

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