What Is A Statement in Programming And What Are The 6 Major Statement Types: A Clarification Of Basic Terminology

The aim of this stupid reference📚 for autodidacts is to define what a statement is in the context of computer science and list the 5 basic types of statements. Same as the romantic opera composer Hector Berlioz, I am an autodidact and it is good to remind oneself that

…There is one think with autodidacts: they have bad teachers.

— Robert Greenberg in How to Listen and Understand Great Music (lecture 35 or 36)

• Statement is a sequentially executed instruction
• There are 5 major types of statements

2. SOURCES

• P2PU — Programming Theory In Practice 1 — Statements: Declarations and Assignments