WGU C173 Scripting and Programming Foundations

used to store information to be referenced and manipulated in a computer program. - -Variable How to assign a value to a variable? - -= symbol An ___________________ is anything that can be evaluated, and pretty much everything you write in a program. - -expression a name assigned to an element in a program. Example, name of a variable, function, etc. - -Identifier the ___________________ must begin with a letter, a digit, or an underscore. - -valid identifiers symbols that helps us to per...

Program Sequence of statements/instructions that are executed one at a time What are the three basic instructions in a program? Input, Process, Output Input When a program gets data Process When a program performs computations on the data it has received as input Output When a program takes the processed data and puts it some where, like a file, screen, network, etc. Variable Named item that holds or refers to a value; is assigned new values throughout the program What are some examp...

What is a variable? - -A name that can hold a value. Might be named x. Then, x = 7 assigns x with 7, which remains in x while the program runs, until x is assigned again. Assignment Statement - -Assigns the variable on the left-side of the = with the current value of the right-side expression Expression - -A mathematical phrase that contains operations, numbers, and/or variables. numApples is initially 5. What is numApples after: numApples = numApples + 3; - -8 Is the following statement ...