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Investigate how control structures affect program flow.

Indicators for this outcome
(a)

Discuss the necessity of control structures in programming.
(b)

Utilize decistion-making structures (e.g., IF, IF-ELSE and SWITCH) to control the order in which instructions execute.
(c)

Utilize WHILE and FOR loops to control program flow and to solve problems with an indefinite or definite number of iterations.
(d)

Determine which type of looping structure allows for the most elegant solution to a problem.
(e)

Solve problems utilizing nested loops.
(f)

Investigate the role of logical operators (e.g., AND (&&), OR (||) and NOT(!)) in compound conditional statements.
(g)

Discuss operator precedence and how to use parentheses to control the evaluation of Boolean expressions.
(h)

Explain how to simplify code using control structures and operators.
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