Conditionals: How computers take decisions

In the video, we introduced the general concept of conditionals. This is a powerful concept in programming, and virtually all programming languages offer a way to create conditionals. They are also known as if statements (because they read “if something is true, then do this, else do something else”).

Conditionals simply allow a program to perform certain computations based on a certain condition. Therefore, it creates branches in our program, allowing our program to perform something depending on a condition. This is very powerful, as you will see in the next videos and exercises.

Python offers a way to write conditionals using if statements and in the next video we will explain how you can create conditionals in Python.