Category: INTRO TO Programming

Part 1: What is Scope? A Simple Analogy Imagine you’re in a large apartment building. Global Scope: The building’s address and name are painted on the outside. Everyone in the city can see it. This...

Part 1: What is a String? A Simple Analogy Imagine you have a magnetic poetry kit. You have individual word tiles (characters) that you can arrange on your refrigerator to form sentences. Characters: These are...

Part 1: What Are Data Types and Why Do They Matter? A data type is an attribute of a piece of data that tells the computer how to interpret its value and what can be done...

Part 1: What is Type Casting? Type casting (also called type conversion) is the process of converting a value from one data type to another. This is necessary because different operations require different data types. You...

Part 1: What Are Operators? An operator is a symbol that represents a specific action or operation to be performed on one or more values, which we call operands. Operand: The values or variables that the operator acts...

Part 1: What Are Arithmetic Operators? Arithmetic operators are symbols used in programming to perform common mathematical operations on numeric values (operands). They take one or two numbers, perform a specific calculation, and return a...

Part 1: What Are Assignment Operators? At its core, an assignment operator is used to assign a value to a variable. The most basic one is the humble equals sign =, but the family includes many useful...

Part 1: What Are Comparison Operators? Comparison operators, also known as relational operators, are used to compare two values. The result of a comparison is always a boolean value: either True or False (in Python; other languages might use true/false or 1/0). This boolean...

Part 1: What Are Logical Operators? Logical operators are used to combine or invert boolean values (True or False). They take one or more boolean expressions as input and produce a single boolean value as output. They...

Part 1: What Are Bits and Why Should You Care? Before we talk about the operators, we need to understand what they operate on: bits. A bit is the most basic unit of information in computing. It...