Variable Naming Rules and Best Practices

Whole numbers plus decimal parts

Single digit numbers, letters, and special characters

An upper case letter from a lower case letter

<p>The words True and False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Date data type and user-defined data types</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Data types cannot be mixed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The set of all base 10 numbers, the plus sign (+), and the negative sign (-)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The set of all characters available to the computer</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The set of data consisting of the words True and False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure the result is numeric</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In memory locations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Externally on an external storage medium such as a hard disk drive in files</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Integers are whole numbers, such as 5,297 or -376.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Numeric data include all types of numbers and are used in numeric calculations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Real numbers are a subtype of numeric data that include non-whole numbers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Character data consists of individual characters like letters, numbers, and symbols.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Logical data is a data type that represents true or false values.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Specifying data types is crucial for informing the computer about the kind of data a variable will hold.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A specific alphabetical and/or numeric value that never changes during the processing of all the instructions in a solution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A value that may change during processing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Variable names must begin with a letter of the alphabet or an underscore (_).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Character data includes alphabetical and special symbol values, while numeric data includes numbers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Logical data is composed of true or false values.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One example of another data type is 'Boolean'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Program files and data files</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Operands are the data that operators connect and process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>5 and 7 are the operands, and 12 is the resultant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relational operators determine the relationship between operands.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They have a precedence or order in which their operations take place.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expressions and equations process data through the use of operators.</p> Signup and view all the answers