The intent is to get you to think about programming at a deeper level. First and foremost, functionality! Yes, your program has to work. But how a program is written depends on other factors as well:

- readability

- personal preference

- performance

- legacy (how others wrote it in the past!)

- coding guidelines to name a few.

For example, there are many different ways to write your selection statements in Java or any high level language for that matter.

- if

-else

- multiple if

- nested if

- switch

- conditional expression or ternary operator (? and :)

Please read this forum on line of if/else vs switch (Hotly debated!). https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/154500/how-is-a-switch-statement-better-than-a-series-of-if-statements Links to an external site. If you want, you are also free to do your own research online to help you answer the question below. Then answer the following questions! 1. Which of the selection statements do you like? Which of the selection statements do you find it hard to learn/grasp? Why? 2. What is one takeaway from the forum listed above?