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.

We can write either simple or compound statements: In a previous article, I introduced variables as a way to store values in your Java code and explained that they must be declared before you can ...

The Java ternary operator can be used in place of if..else statements to create highly condensed and arguably unintelligible code. Experienced developers love the brevity and conciseness the Java ...

Java code is case sensitive ... code you can call upon at any point during your program — and “conditional statements,” which only execute if certain conditions are met.

You can write some fairly complex code that operates on if statements, but you'd need a lot of them and it will drive you crazy. So, although you're probably going to love them, don't overuse them.