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Lesson 5 - Selection

From 2001's HAL to War Games' WOPPER to AI, popular culture has often portrayed computers as "thinking machines", rather than as glorified calculators. Computers seem to "think" because, unlike an adding machine, a computer can make decisions and carry out different actions, based upon the input it receives. That's the subject of this lesson.

Lesson 5 sections are as follows:

5.1 The boolean Type	Learn about the boolean primitive data type.
5.2 The if Statement	Learn how to perform selection using if, else, and the relational operators.
5.3 Logical Operators	Learn how to use AND, OR, and NOT, and the rules of short-circuit evaluation.
5.4 Multiple Choice	Learn how to implement multi-way branches using if-else-if-else, as well as switch.
5.5 Java "action" Events	Learn to handle button-clicks the Java 1.0 way, by using the action() method.
5.6 Panels and Layout	Learn about Java's Panel class and the different layout managers.

Continue with section 5.1 The boolean Type

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