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What is a menu in a program?
Short answer. A numbered list of choices printed on the screen.
How many tasks run when the user picks one number?
Only the one linked to that number.
Menu driven program
| Shows numbered choices |
| User types one number |
| Only that task runs |
Remember
| Menu: a list of choices |
| One program, many tasks |
Press one for cash, two for balance. How? This is a menu driven program. It shows numbered choices. The user types one number. Only that task runs. Two things to keep. A menu is a list of choices. One program holds many tasks.
This clip is from the full lesson: Menu-driven Programs with switch and System.exit — 8 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: ICSE Class 9 Computer Applications, ICSE Class 9 Computer Applications, Programming All levels Java
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