CS 1371 Lecture 5: 6_conditionals+_1_
6 Feb 2018
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A conditional statement is a block of code that only runs if a certain condition is met. This is the first time you get to control which of your code is actually run. In the past, all of your code ran from beginning to end. Now, we"ve introduced the concept of control flow so you get to decide which blocks of code run and which are skipped entirely. Conditional statements are useful when you want to separate out different cases. Maybe you only want to calculate how many nice dates you can afford if you have enough money in your bank account to at least cover textbooks for that semester. Perhaps you have an encoder that treats uppercase letters one way and lowercase letters another. If-statements are used when you have a logical condition that is to be evaluated and the code block run only if it"s true. The general form of an if-statement is as follows: if
