How to Java: E3 (If/Else Statements)

Hello Java-ers,

In the previous two tutorials, we learned about installing the JDK, Installing/CreatingAProject in Eclipse IDE, and data types in Java.

In this tutorial, we will be learning about if/else statements.

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In Java, an if statement can be interpretted as

if(This condition is true){

doSomething();

}else if(another condition is true){

doSomethingElse();

}else{

otherConditionsAreFalseDoThisOtherThing();

}

So lets write our first if/else statement:

(Assuming that you (the reader) have already created a Java project and file for this)

lets make a program that checks to see if an int variable equals the number "5":

public class numCheck{

public static void main(String[] args){

int num = 12;

if(num == 5){

System.out.println("Num equals 5");

}else{

System.out.println("Num does not equal 5");

}

}

}

(If you prefer organized code, press Ctrl+Shift+O (Windows), Cmd+Shift+O (OSX), Ctrl+Shift+O (Linux))

You can find the code for this on Github HERE

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You don't need the brackets (its not required, but adding them doesn't harm anything) after the if/else statement, only if the doSomething() statements are only one line, with just one semi-colon at the end.

Its only when you have multi-lined statements within an if statement, you Must have brackets.