Conditional Statements

Conditional statements alter the sequential flow of the program
Also called selection statements, branch statements, control structures, alternation
These statements transfer control to a statement other than the one that is physically next in the code
The conditional statement contains an expression that evaluates to either TRUE or FALSE; these expressions are called boolean expressions
C++ doesn't have a built-in boolean type; TRUE is represented by a 1, and FALSE is represented by a 0
We can define a new type called Boolean, and use that in our programs; we can use the typedef keyword to define other types
We can also define the words TRUE and FALSE to represent 1 and 0
The primary conditional statement is the if statement