When I first learned to program, it was grasping if statements that helped it all click into place for me. Once you can use if statements, you can build all kinds of useful and interesting tools.

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Learn how to use statements like if, if-else, switch, for, and while to declare variables and specify expressions, make decisions, iterate over statements, and more. Java applications evaluate ...