Programming and Problem Solving with Java

1.5 What Kinds of Instructions Can Be Written in a Programming Language? | 17

Figure 1.9 Basic Control Structures of Programming Languages

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SEQUENCE

SELECTION(also calledbranchhordecisionn))

IF condition THEN statement1 ELSE statement 2

LOOP(also calledrepetitionnoriterationn))

SUBPROGRAM(also calledprocedure, function, method,orsubroutine

ASYNCHRONOUS

Statement Statement Statement

Condition

Statement 2

Statement 1

Tr u eTr u e

Falsese

Condition

Statement 1

False

SUBPROGRAM 1

EVENT

ue

SUBPROGRAM 1

a meaningful collection

of any of the above

EVENTHANDLER

a subprogram executed

when an event occurs