Definition: Counter-conditioning is a technique in software engineering that allows for conditional statements to be evaluated before execution. It's used when you need to check if an input value has been set or not, and then perform some action based on whether it was set or not. For example, in a simple program like this: ``` int x = 5; if (x == 5) { // Do something } // In Counter-Conditioned Programming: if (x > 0 &&
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