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Computation rests on two foundations: memory and control. Having developed a memory model in Chapter 1, this chapter extends the computational model with control statements. Such statements direct the flow of computation: the if/else construct enables conditional computation; and the while and for constructs facilitate iterative computation. Function calls, when combined with conditional statements, can yield even more complex control in the form of recursion.
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Bradley, A.R. (2011). Control. In: Programming for Engineers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23303-6_2
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