VTech Precomputer Power Pad Plus MAKING DECISIONS, INPUT “GIVE ME A NUMBER”; N1, INPUT “AND ANOTHER”; N2, PRINT “I WILL ADD THEM”, PRINT “THE ANSWER IS”; C

You can use as many input statements as you need to get all the values into your program.

Try this:

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10	INPUT “GIVE ME A NUMBER”; N1	press ENTER
20	INPUT “AND ANOTHER”; N2	press ENTER
30	PRINT “I WILL ADD THEM”	press ENTER
40	C=N1+N2	press ENTER
50	PRINT “THE ANSWER IS”; C	press ENTER

Type RUN and press ENTER to see what happens.

MAKING DECISIONS

The IF statement tells the computer that it has to make a decision. It does this by comparing two numbers, or arithmetic expressions or string variables. It uses special symbols to represent a condition.

The symbol > means greater than.

The symbol < means less than.

The symbol = means equal to.

The symbol > = means greater than or equal to.

The symbol < = means less than or equal to.

Here are some conditions:

5 < 10 20 > 10

They are both true because

5 is less than 10

20 is greater than 10

The IF statement has a condition either TRUE or FALSE. The computer evaluates the condition and decides that if a condition is TRUE it will do something for the TRUE condition.

Take the following:

IF A > 90 THEN PRINT “YOU ARE SMART”

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