Chp. 4 Vocabulary

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Chapter 4 Vocabulary

Define the following terms and expressions from your textbook.

Boolean expression an expression that evaluates to true or false

Compound Boolean expression includes more then one Boolean expression

Conditional control structure branches program flow depending on a condition also called a decision structure

Decision structure see conditional control structure

Linear Congruential Method uses a formula to generate a sequence of pseudo random numbers

Logical And && operator used to form compound Boolean expressions

Logical Not the ! operator used to reverse the value of a Boolean structure

Logical Or used to form compound Boolean expressions

Nested placed within the same type of statement

Pseudo random like random

Relational operator can be used to form a Boolean expression

Short circuit evaluation process for determining the result of a Boolean expression where the left operand is evaluated first

Truth table shows the possible outcomes of two w=expressions joined by a logical operator

Chapter 4 Java

== equal

< less tan

<= less than or equal to

> greater than

>= greater than or equal to

!= nor equal

&& logical and operator

||logical or operator

! logical not operator

break moves program control to next statement

case contains statements to be executed when the cases condition matches the result of the switch command

if decision structure that executes a set of statements when a condition is true

if-else executes one set of statements

if-else if used to decide among three or more actions

Math java.lang class with methods for generation random numbers and performing math functions

switch decision structure that uses the result of an expression to determine which set of statements to execute