Operators & Statements Flashcards
1
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Statement
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A syntactic unit (following the syntax of the language) of a programming language that expresses some action to be carried out.
2
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Operator
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A symbol that tells the compiler or interpreter to perform specific mathematical, relational or logical operation and produce final result.
Eg: completing calculations/concatenating strings
3
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Type
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Determines the format in which data is stored.
Eg: booleans, flot/real, int, string
4
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Keyword
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A word that is reserved by a program because the word has a special meaning
5
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Assignment Operator
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Places a value in a variable or constant
food = burger constant = 3.14
6
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Evaluation
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Produces a value from an expression.
a = a+b
