U2L10 - else if

This lesson drills what Trevor teaches in U2L10

Pre-requirements:

• You have performed each of previous drills to reach a top speed, and then repeated top speed 10x
• Follow this for all drills explainer
• Or this if you haven't even installed the drills yet installation

Summary of what is drilled

A Disciplined Approach? holds that these items should never again allow any confusion in your mind about this list of what Trevor covered in this lesson:

COVERED IN THE LESSON

• can have an if without an else
• can have an if(){}else if(){} else {}
• only an expression that yields a boolean can be used in an if
• an assignment is NOT an expression that yields a boolean ie age=12
• == does not work with String comparisons
• nested if statements

Instructor Administered Test

• Create a new project
• Create a new package
• Create a new class with a new public static void main method
• declare and assign an int variable named attitude of 8

write code that prints

• if you have an attitude of higher than 7 then you will persist,
• else if it is greater than 5 you will stay positive,
• else if greater than 3 you will at least smile
• else you might give up,
• but either way you can learn from your experience.