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Time Narration
00:02 Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Nested-If and Ternary Operator in java.
00:07 By the end of this tutorial you should be able to:
  • Explain Nested-If Statements and Ternary operators.
  • Use them in a Java program.
00:17 For this tutorial we are using:

Ubuntu v 11.10,

JDK 1.6,and

EclipseIDE 3.7.0

00:27 To follow this tutorial, you should know,
00:29 about the usage of relational and logical operators.
00:33 And if...else control flow statements.
00:36 If not, for relevant tutorial please visit our website which is as shown.
00:41 Nested if statements an If statement within another if statement is called a nested-if statement.
00:49 Now let us locate the syntax for writing the Nested-If statement.
00:53 In this case, if condition 1 is true, then the program checks for condition 2.
00:59 Condition 2 is given using another If statement.
01:03 If condition 2 is true, then the program executes Statement or block 1.
01:09 Else, it executes Statement or block 2.


01:13 If condition 1 is false, then the program will not check condition2.
01:18 Instead it will directly jump to its else statement i.e. block 3.
01:24 nOw Let us try and example to understand that better
01:28 We have the eclipse IDE and the skeleton required for the rest of the code.
01:32 We have created a class NesedIfDemo and added the main method to it.
01:37 We shall check if the given number is a even number or an odd number.
01:42 we will also handle negative numbers using a nested-if.
01:46 So inside the main method type
01:49 int n = minus 5;
01:54 We have created a variable n to store the negative number.
01:58 Now we shall write the if conditions.
02:01 Next line Type
02:02 if (n < 0)
02:07 open curly bracket. Press enter
02:10 System.out.println Within brackets and double quotes (“Negative number”);
02:22 We first see if the number is a negative number.
02:25 If yes then we will not check for even and odd.
02:29 if the number is not a negative, we check for even and odd.
02:34 Next line Type

else {

} Press enter

02:42 Now if the execution has come to the else part.
02:45 It means that the number is non negative.


02:48 So we check for odd or even inside this else part.
02:52 Type
02:53 if (n modules 2 double equal to 0) { Press enter
03:03 System.out.println(“Even number”);

}

else { press enter

Type

System.out.println(“Odd number”);

}

03:29 So we make sure that negative numbers are not considered for odd or even check.
03:34 Now let us see the code in action.
03:37 Save and run the file.As we can see, we get the output as“negative number”.
03:43 now Let us try a positive number
03:46 Change n = -5 to n = 5
03:53 NowSave and Run the file
03:57 As we can see, the output is odd number as expected. Let us try an even number
04:04 Change n = 5 to n = 10.
04:09 Now Save and run the file
04:12 As we can see, the output is “even” number as expected.
04:17 This process of including an if statement inside another, is called nested-if.
04:22 There is no limit to the amount of nesting.
04:25 But it is a good practice to not go beyond 3 levels of nesting.
04:31 Now we shall look at the ternary operator.
04:33 First let me clean up the Main method.
04:37 We shall write a program that divides a number by 2.
04:40 It is a very trivial program but the issue comes in dividing odd numbers.
04:45 When 7 is divided by 2, we get 3.
04:48 But what if we want the result to be rounded off.
04:50 Which means, when 7 is divided by 2, we get 4 and not 3
04:56 In simple terms, we need the next number.
04:59 Let us see how to write such a program.
05:01 See inside the main method Type int n, nHalf ;
05:08 We will store the number in n and the half number in nHalf
05:13 NExt line Type n = 5;
05:18 NExt line Type if (n % 2 == 0) { Press enter
05:28 Type nHalf = n / 2;

}

else {

nHalf = (n + 1) / 2;

}

05:50 We check if the number is even or odd and do the division accordingly.
05:55 Now Let us add a print statement to see the program in action.
05:59 So Type System.out.println(nHalf);
06:11 Now Save and Run the file


06:14 As we can see, our objective is met. We get the output as 3 and not 2
06:21 But if we notice, all we are doing is, setting the value of a variable depending on a condition.


06:27 There is more syntax than logic in our program.


06:31 This is when ternary operator makes code simpler.
06:35 Ternary Operator conditional operator providing results similar to nested-if.
06:40 It Provides a short syntax and is denoted by a question mark.
06:45 It Takes three operands at a time.
06:48 Let us learn about the syntax of Ternary Operator.


06:53 The expression is the condition that has to be checked.


06:56 Operand 1 is the value of the variable Result if the condition is true.


07:03 Operand 2 is the value if the condition is false.
07:09 Now Let us use it in our program.
07:12 First let us remove the if-else statement.
07:17 Type nHalf = n % 2 == 0 ? n / 2 : (n + 1) / 2 semi-colon


07:41 This statement reads,
07:43 if n is even, nHalf is n by 2 ,Otherwise, it is n plus 1 by 2.
07:50 Let us now see it in action.
07:52 Save and Runthe file. Press Ctrl S and Ctrl F11 keys
07:59 As we can see, the output is as expected.


08:02 This way, ternary operator reduces clutter in the code and improves readability.
08:09 We have come to the end of this tutorial.
08:11 In this tutorial we have learnt:
08:13 * About Nested-If Statements and Ternary Operator
08:15 * Usage of Nested-If Statements and Ternary Operator in a Java program
08:22 Now take an assignment on
08 :23 Nested-If and Ternary operator. Write java program for the following.
08:28 * Check whether a number is even and also a multiple of 11 using nested-if.
08:34 * Identify the largest number among the two given numbers using Ternary operator.


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