Understanding SWITCH Statement in Java using Eclipse IDE

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In this tutorial, you will learn the following:

Conditional Statement (Switch Statement). Switch Statement is a conditional statement meaning that a certain condition being true will cause a particular block of code to be executed and being false will thereby cause another block of code to be executed.

You would need the following inorder to following this tutorial:

An Integrated Development Environment(IDE) installed that can run Java (e.g Netbeans, Eclipse)
JDK 1.X installed on your Pc
Of course willingness to learn

Difficulty

Intermediate

Description

The Switch statement is being explained here and a simple application is created where the user inputs a certain value ranging from 1 - 7 and then is being firstly told what day of the week the value stands for (i.e 1 = Monday, 5 = Friday).
The Application is then changed to indicate if the value enetered falls under Week days or Week ends (i.e Monday is Week Day and Friday is Weekend)