Unit 3 - Primitive Values, Formatting and Parsing

Question 1

Types of primitive values that PLs often provide

Answer 1

• Numbers
• Booleans
• Characters
• Symbolic values

Question 2

What is dynamic type checking

Answer 2

type checking occurs at runtime. This means that the compiler will ignore issues that the runtime will detect later, such as invalid type arguments and data mismatches.

Question 3

What is static type checking

Answer 3

Static typing is a typing system where variables are bound to a data type during compilation. Once a variable is assigned a data type it remains unchanged throughout the programs execution.