5.1. Introduction
Chapter 4 began our introduction to the types of building blocks that are available for problem solving. We used those building blocks to employ proven program-construction techniques. This chapter continues our presentation of structured programming theory and principles by introducing Java’s remaining control statements. The control statements we study here and in Chapter 4 are helpful in building and manipulating objects.
In this chapter, 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 devote a portion of the chapter (and Chapter 7) to expanding the GradeBook class presented in Chapters 3–
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