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Understand Control Structures

A computer is good at doing one thing and one thing only—executing a series of instructions. From the computer's point of view, it is simply handed a sequence of instructions to execute, and it does so accurately and quickly.

The instructions executed by the computer are spelled out using a programming language, such as Visual Basic .NET. For example, if you want the computer to create an integer variable, assign the value 4 to it, and then multiply the variable's value by 2, you could use the following code:

 'Create a variable of type Integer and assign it the value 4 Dim someVariable as Integer = 4 'Multiply the value of someVariable by 2 and assign the product 'back to the variable someVariable (this is equivalent ...