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3: Controlling program flow

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next Like a sentient creature, a program must manipulate its world and make choices during execution. In Java you manipulate objects and data using operators, and you make choices with execution control statements. Java was inherited from C++, so most of these statements and operators will […]

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a sentient creature, a program must manipulate its world and make choices


during execution.

In


Java you manipulate objects and data using operators, and you make choices with


execution control statements. Java was inherited from C++, so most of these


statements and operators will be familiar to C and C++ programmers. Java has


also added some improvements and simplifications.


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