Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

5.1 Introduction

This chapter continues our presentation of structured programming theory and principles by introducing all but one of Java’s remaining control statements. We demonstrate Java’s for, do...while and switch statements. Through a series of short examples using while and for, we explore the essentials of counter-controlled repetition. We use a switch statement to count the number of A, B, C, D and F grade equivalents in a set of numeric grades entered by the user. We introduce the break and continue program-control statements. We discuss Java’s logical operators, which enable you to use more complex conditional expressions in control statements. Finally, we summarize Java’s control statements and the proven problem-solving techniques ...