The Power and Meaning of ‘ELSE IF’,’THEN’,’END’, Command

IF (day_of_birth == “Monday”)THEN

               name = “Adjoa”

ELSE

               name = “Unknown”

ENDIF

Simplified breakdown of the code snippet:

Phase1

IF (day_of_birht = = “Monday”) THEN

This line commences a conditional statement, which is known as an IF statement. Additionally, it checks whether the value of the variable day_of_birth is equal to the string given, which is MONDAY.

In this case, the THEN keyword indicates that if the given condition is true, the code inside the IF block will be executed.

Phase2

name = “Adjoa” In the case or if the condition in the IF statement is true, that is day_of_birth is indeed “Monday”, then this line assigns the string “Adjoa” to the given variable, that is name.

Phase3

ELSE

In programming, this is known to be a keyword that indicates that if the condition in the IF statements is false, that is day_of_birth is not “Monday”), however, the code inside the ELSE block will be executed.

Phase 4

name = “Unknown”

This is a type of a condition states simply that if the condition in the IF statement is false, then this line assigns the string that is “UNKNOWN” to the variable name.

Phase 5

ENDIF

This is also a keyword that marks the end of the IF statement. This, however, is used to indicate that the conditional block has ended, and the code will continue executing from this given point.

In addition to the aforementioned, this code snippet checks the value of day_of_birth and assigns a name to the name variable based on that value.

If day_of_birth is “Monday”, the name will be ‘Adjoa’; otherwise, it will answer as “Unknown”.

BUGS IN THE CODE DETECTION

These are the bugs I find personally in the code.

First and foremost, the syntax is not specific to any of the programming languages in computer science or programming as a whole. Meanwhile, the code seems to be a mix of different languages. Let’s consider IF and ENDIF. These commands are commonly used in Fortran, while THEN is also commonly noted and used in Visual Basic.

Additionally, I have realized that the entire code is not enclosed in a function or even in a block. However, in most programming languages, a programmer is supposed to close all codes, which are to be inside a function, method or block to be executed.

Meanwhile, I observed the variable given in the entire code, that is name is completely not declared. Variables in programming are supposed to be declared before use or can be used as needed.

Another issue is the code does not handle cases where day_of_birth is not “Monday”. Note: while it sets name to Unknown in the case, it does not really provide any other options.

The days of the week are supposed to be handled in real-world scenarios and the user would love to print the name variable.

Below is the written code in Python programming language.

1 def get_name(day_of_birth):

2             if day_of_birth == “Monday”:

3                            name = “Adzoa”

4             else:

5                            name = “Unknown”

6             return name

7

8day_of_birth = “Monday”

9print(get_name(day_of_birth))  # Output: Adjoa

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