Control Flow and Decision Making

Generally the statements inside your java code are executed from top to bottom, in the order that they appear. Control flow statements, change or break the flow of execution by implementing decision making, looping, and branching your program to execute particular blocks of code based on the conditions.

There are 3 types of control flow statements supported by the Java programming language.

1. Decision-making statements : if-then, if-then-else, switch
2. Looping statements : for, while, do-while
3. Branching statements : break, continue, return