flow control soyou know the basics of individual instructions and that program is just series of instructions but programming' real strength isn' just running one instruction after another like weekend errand list based on how expressions evaluatea program can decide to skip instructionsrepeat themor choose one of several instructions to run in factyou almost never want your programs to start from the first line of code and simply execute every linestraight to the end flow control statements can decide which python instructions to execute under which conditions these flow control statements directly correspond to the symbols in flowchartso 'll provide flowchart versions of the code discussed in this figure - shows flowchart for what to do if it' raining follow the path made by the arrows from start to end