CHAPTER THREE

DECISION AND REPETITION

STATEMENTS
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Outline
• If/else statement
• Switch case
• While loop
• Do while loop
• For loop
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Decision statements
• The program can decide which statements to execute based on a condition.

• Java has several types of selection statements:

• one-way if statements

• two-way if-else statements

• nested if statements

• multi-way if-else statements

• switch case statements, and

• conditional expressions.
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Decision statm…
one way if statement
•A one-way if statement executes an action if and only if the condition is
true.
Syntax

•If the boolean-expression evaluates to true, the statements in the

block are executed. As an example, see the following code:
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Decision statm…
• The block braces can be omitted if they enclose a single statement. For

example, the following statements are equivalent.

• Two-Way if-else Statements

• An if-else statement decides the execution path based on whether the

condition is true or false.

• Syntax

•
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Dec statem…
Example.

• Nested if and Multi-Way if-else Statements

• An if statement can be inside another if statement to form a nested if
statement.
• Example
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Dec statmn…
• Example multi way if statement

Switch Statements
• A switch statement executes statements based on the value of a variable or
an expression.
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Dec statem…

• Repetition (loop) statements

• A loop can be used to tell a program to execute statements repeatedly.
• Three types of loops in java: while, do while and for loop.
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Loops in java
while Loop
•A while loop executes statements repeatedly while the condition is
true.

•Do while loop

•A do-while loop is the same as a while loop except that it executes the
loop body first and then checks the loop continuation condition.
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