New Concept: A Pattern of Statements

This lesson takes one step up from your previous 'if-else' statements! If you showed this program to someone who had never seen block code before, they'd be amazed (and maybe confused). You should be seeing the patterns in the programs at this point and understanding that, although there are lots of syntax marks, line breaks, and strangely typed words in the code, you're really looking at a simple 'if' statement, repeated twice. If you played around with the challenges and the code, you probably saw that the 'if' statements aren't related to each other; that is, you can delete one 'if-else' statement and the code still works. Continue trying to see the patterns in a program when you first look through it. You might even notice that you can skim over some of the details of the example code at this point and quickly get the 'general idea' of the program just by looking at it.