What Is Control Flow Statement

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∟What Is Control Flow Statement

This section describes Control Flow Statements, which are statements that change the default flow of execution.

What Is Control Flow Statement? - A Control Flow Statement is a statement that changes the default flow of execution, which run statements one by one sequentially.

Control flow statements can be grouped into 3 categories:

Decision-Making Statements - A control-flow statement that transfers control to one of several statements based on the result of a condition logic. "if" statements, and "switch" statements are decision-making statements.
Looping Statements - A control-flow statement that repeats a statement multiple times based on a condition logic to stop the looping. "for" statements, "while" statements and "do" statements are looping statements.
Branching Statements - A control-flow statement that transfers control to a statement different than the next statement. "break" statements, "continue" statements, and "return" statements are branching statements.

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JDK - Java Development Kit

Execution Process, Entry Point, Input and Output

Primitive Data Types and Literals

►Control Flow Statements

►What Is Control Flow Statement

"if-then" Statements

"if-then-else" Statements

Nested "if-then-else" Statements

"switch" Statements

Fall-Through Behavior of "switch" Statements

Basic "for" Statements

Enhanced "for" Statements

"while" Statements

"do" Statements

"break" Statements

Labeled "break" Statements

"continue" Statements

Labeled "continue" Statements

Bits, Bytes, Bitwise and Shift Operations

Managing Bit Strings in Byte Arrays

Reference Data Types and Variables

Enum Types and Enum Constants

StringBuffer - The String Buffer Class

System Properties and Runtime Object Methods

Generic Classes and Parameterized Types

Generic Methods and Type Inference

Lambda Expressions and Method References

Java Modules - Java Package Aggregation

Execution Threads and Multi-Threading Java Programs

ThreadGroup Class and "system" ThreadGroup Tree

Synchronization Technique and Synchronized Code Blocks

Deadlock Condition Example Programs

Garbage Collection and the gc() Method

Assert Statements and -ea" Option

Annotation Statements and Declarations

Java Related Terminologies

Archived Tutorials

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