Sams Teach Yourself C# 5.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 8. Controlling Program Flow

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Understanding the selection statements

• Iteration statements

• Jump statements

At its heart, C# is a procedural programming language, so statements are executed sequentially in the order they appear in the source code. This execution order is referred to as program flow. As you might imagine, following only a strict execution order would provide little flexibility. What is missing is a way to control or change what statements are executed based on the result of testing conditions. C# provides control flow statements that change the order of execution.

All the control flow statements have the same basic characteristics; they select any number of statements to be executed based ...