Chapter Summary

The following information was included in this chapter:

• explanation of the selection statements : if , if-else , switch

• explanation of the iteration statements : for , while , do-while

• explanation of the transfer statements : break , continue , return

• discussion of exception handling and exception classes in the core APIs

• defining new exception types

• explanation of the try - catch - finally construct and control flow paths through the construct

• throwing explicit exceptions with the throw statement

• using the throws clause to specify checked exceptions

• explanation of the assert statement

• using, compiling, and executing assertions