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Section 5.5 WriteSelection-WE2-P1

Subgoals for Writing Selection Statements.

If Statement
  1. Define how many mutually exclusive paths are needed
  2. Order from most restrictive/selective group to least restrictive
  3. Write if statement with Boolean expression
  4. Follow with true bracket including action
  5. Follow with else bracket
  6. Repeat until all groups and actions are accounted for
OR Switch Statement
  1. Determine variable / expression for mutually exclusive ranges
  2. Write switch statement based on variable / expression
  3. Each range is a ‘case’
  4. Include break statements and default case if needed

Subsection 5.5.1

Exercises Exercises

1.
Q5: Put the code in the right order to create a program that will generate an integer value between 0 and 25, print the value, and if the value is greater than 18, print a message saying “This is an overload”; otherwise print a message saying “Not an overload”.
2.
Q6: Put the code in the right order to create a program that will generate an integer value between 3 and 7, print the value, and if the value is equal to 5 then set the character variable classType equal to ‘G’, and print a message saying “graduate student”; otherwise set classType equal to ‘U’ and print a message saying “undergraduate”.
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Q7: Put the code in the right order to create a program that will generate the value for a year (1500 to 3000 inclusive) and print the value. Then it will print true if the year is a leap year, otherwise the program prints false. A leap year is a multiple of 4, with one exception: if the year is a multiple of 100 but not 400, then it is not a leap year. For example, the year 1900 was not a leap year, but the year 2000 was indeed a leap year.
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