Java/C2/Switch-Case/English

Title of script: Switch Case in Java

Author: TalentSprint

Keywords: case, switch, conditions, video tutorial

Visual Cue	Description
Slide 1 Welcome	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Switch case in Java.
Slide 2 Learning Outcomes	In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the switch case construct in Java
Slide 3 Tools Used	For this tutorial we are using Ubuntu 11.10 JDK 1.6 and Eclipse 3.7.0
Slide 4 Prerequisites	For this tutorial, you should have knowledge of if else statement in Java. If not, please go through the tutorials on these topics available at our website http://spoken-tutorial.org
Slide 5 switch case	The switch case is used to perform actions based on the value of a variable. Here is the syntax for a switch case statement. Let us use it now.
Minimize Slides and open Eclipse Eclipse should contain the following code public class SwitchCaseDemo{ public static void main(String[] args){ } }	I already have Eclipse opened. I have created a class named SwitchCaseDemo. Let us add some variables.
Inside the main, type int day = 3; String dName = “”; Highlight day and dName when you explain.	Inside the main, we will create a variable day of type int. So type int day and we can give it a value equal to 3. Now, let us create a variable dName of type String. Then initialize it to null. Here dName is a variable to hold the names of the days of a week. day stores the day number. Now, we will type the switch case statement. So type switch within brackets day , then open curly brackets...
Highlight switch(day)	This statement defines which variable is under consideration for the cases.
Type switch(day) { case 0: dName = “Sunday”; break; }	Next line type case 0 colon dName equal to within double quotes Sunday semicolon Then type break semicolon. This statement says that if the value of day is 0, the value of dName must be set to Sunday. Note that a break statement must be used at the end of each case. without the break statement, the switch-case functions in a complex fashion. It will be explained in subsequent part of the tutorial.
switch(day) { case 0: dName = “Sunday”; break; case 1: dName = “Monday”; break; case 2: dName = “Tuesday”; break; case 3: dName = “Wednesday”; break; case 4: dName = “Thursday”; break; case 5: dName = “Friday”; break; case 6: dName = “Saturday”; break; }	Similarly, let us type the remaining cases. case 1 colon dName equal to within double quotes Monday semicolon break semicolon case 2 colon dName equal to within double quotes Tuesday semicolon break semicolon case 3 colon dName equal to within double quotes Wednesday semicolon break semicolon case 4 colon dName equal to within double quotes Thursday semicolon break semicolon case 5 colon dName equal to within double quotes Friday semicolon break semicolon case 5 colon dName equal to within double quotes Saturday semicolon break semicolon Then close the brackets.
	Let us now add a print statement and see the code in action.
Type System.out.println(dName); save and run. Point to output	Type System dot out dot println within brackets dName semicolon. Save and run. As we can see, the output is Wednesday corresponding to the case 3. Let us change the value of day and see the result
Change day = 3 to day = 0 save and run. Point to output	Change 3 to 0 Save and Run As we can see, the output is Sunday corresponding to the case 0 Now what if there is no case corresponding to the value. Let us see
Change day = 0 to day = -1 save and run. Point to output	As we can see, there is no output. But it would be better if we could have a case for all other values. That is done by using the default keyword.
After the last case, type this default: dName = “Wrong Choice” break; save and run. Point to output	After the last case, type default colon dName equal to within double quotes Wrong Choice break semicolon Note that we simply use the keyword default . We do not say case default. Let us now run the code. As we can see, the default case is executed and the required message is printed. Let us try with another random value.
Change day = -1 to day = 15 save and run. Point to output	Change -1 to 15 As we can see, again the default case is executed.
	Now let us see what happens if we remove the break statement.
Change day = 15 to day = 4 Remove the break in case 4 statement there	Let us change day = 15 to day = 4 And remove the corresponding break statement for day=4 Save and run
Point to output	Although the case is 4, we get the output as Friday and not Thursday.
Highlight case 4 and case 5	This is because of the way switch case works. First the value of day is compared with 0. Then with 1 and then with 2 and so on with all the possible cases.
	When a match is found, it executes all the case from the match onwards. In our case, it executed case 5 after case 4 . Then it stops because of the break statement in case 5.
	To avoid that, we need to add a break statement in each case.
Type in case 4 break;	Let us now add the break statement we removed. Type break semicolon. Now let us run the code.
Save and run. Point to output	As we can see, now only case 4 is executed. As a rule, remember to use a break statement in every case to avoid errors.
Minimize the Eclipse window and switch to slides. Slide 6 Summary	We have come to the end of this tutorial. In this tutorial we have learnt how to use switch case construct and how to use break statement.
Slide 7Assignment	Write a program that has a name and gender and a switch case statement that prints “Hello Mr....” for males and “Hello Ms...” for females.
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