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Java module J704
Loops and Conditional Statements
Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module J704. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to Program in Java, Java Bootcamp, Java Programming for the Web

Unless otherwise specified, code runs from top to bottom, very much in the manner that you read a book. Conditional statements such as "if" allow the programmer to choose whether or not blocks of the code are to be skipped over, and loops such as "while" allow blocks of code to be repeated.

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Examples from our training material
Bills.java   Nested loops, conditionals, breaks, labels etc
Capacity.java   Course Exercise - capacity of tables in a restaurant
Day2a.java   Sample program for exercise
Firstif.java   Example of a first if statement
Forloop.java   the 'for' loop in Java
Loop1.java   'While' loop example
Loop2.java   Breaking from a loop
Newtab.java   First read - calculate - loop program
Secondif.java   Nested 'ifs', and 'else'
Sindoll.java   Excerise - Singapore to US Dollar table
Updown.java   Example of a boolean variable
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"if" statement.
"while" loop.
"for" loop.
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