{"id":882,"date":"2021-06-26T08:25:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T12:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/?post_type=term&#038;p=882"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:18:16","slug":"conditional-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/conditional-statements-302508\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditionals: The Power of True vs. False"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conditionals are statements used in computer programming to make decisions. They rely on determining whether a certain condition is True or False after which actions are taken accordingly. Conditionals are at the core of computer science and used to build powerful abstractions found in all higher-level programming languages.<\/p>\n<p>Conditionals are often visualized as branching tree structures. At each intersection, the programmer asks for a True or False statement. Depending on how that question is answered, the program then runs the logic of another branch. For example:<\/p>\n<p><code class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\">IF<\/code> I need to go to the grocery store <code class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\">THEN<\/code> take a left <code class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\">ELSE<\/code> to take a right to go home.<\/p>\n<p>Conditional statements aren&#8217;t restricted to computer science. Business and personal decisions can benefit greatly from implementing conditionals to other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/problem-solving-process-180215\/\">problem-solving strategies<\/a>. Outside of computing, conditional statements are often called <em>logic trees<\/em>. The premise is the same\u2014just wrapped up in friendlier semantics. Combined with consideration for the Pros and Cons of a decision, these structures can help build powerful decision-making frameworks for a range of uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditionals are statements used in computer programming to make decisions. They rely on determining whether a certain condition is True or False after which actions are taken accordingly. Conditionals are at the core of computer science and used to build powerful abstractions found in all higher-level programming languages. Conditionals are often visualized as branching tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,260],"tags":[461,367],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}