Conditionals

Programming basics

A conditional statement evaluates an expression and executes instructions depending on the outcome of the evaluation. Conditionals depend on operators to evaluate if an expression is true or false. A condition and selection are not the same thing. A condition asks a question. A selection processes the answer.

With gratitude to and permissison from Stephen Hughes (Coe College) and Philip East (University of Northern Iowa), The list below is an example of types of conditional questions. You should start thinking about conditions in plain english before you start thinking about operators.

• Match
• Threshold
• Range
• One-of
• Not-match
• Not one of
• All of
• Some of
• Eligible

An example of a simple conditional in PHP can be found below:

A video

This video references the C programming language and scratch, but the ideas about conditionals are excellent. In the case of conditionals, PHP and C share similar syntax (but not exact).

Standards

• Define the terms: variable, constant, operator, object.

See Also

• Conditionals in php
• Operators

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