Decision-Making Statements

Decision-making statements allow a program to choose different paths of execution based on certain conditions.

Purposes

• They are essential for controlling the flow of a program and making it respond to different situations.
• To execute different code blocks depending on whether a condition is true or false
• To check boolean expressions and control program logic

How They Work

• A condition or boolean expression is evaluated
• If the condition is true, a specific block of code is executed
• If the condition is false, another block of code may be executed or skipped

Common Decision-Making Statements

• If–Else Statement
• Switch Statement

If-Else vs. Switch

Feature	If-Else	Switch
Readability	Better for different variables or complex conditions	Better for many conditions on a single variable
Flexibility	Can check any boolean condition	Limited to equality checks against constants