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# 11) Flow Control

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Java Control statements in a programming language are very useful as they allow a programmer to change the flow of program execution i.e. altering the normal program flow to jump directly on some statement or to skip a statement. 

Java’s program control statements can be put into the following categories:

1. Selection. 
2. Iteration. 
3. Jump. 
4. Selection statements: allow your program to choose different paths of execution based upon the outcome of an expression or the state of a variable. 
5. Iteration statements: enable program execution to repeat one or more statements (that is, iteration statements form loops). 
6. Jump statements: allow your program to execute in a nonlinear fashion.