CS110: Introduction to Computing - Imperative Programming: Basic Data Types

These flashcards cover key terms and concepts related to basic data types and their operations in imperative programming as introduced in the CS110 course.

Data Type

A specification of a range of values along with a set of operations defined on those values.

str

Represents sequences of characters with string operations.

int

Represents integers with arithmetic operations.

float

Represents floating-point numbers (aka floats) with arithmetic operations.

bool

Represents boolean (true/false) values with logical operations.

complex

Represents complex numbers (e.g., 2 + 3i) with complex-number operations.

Literal

A basic data-type value directly defined in code, like a string or number.

Identifier

A name representing a variable or function, which is a sequence of letters, digits, and underscore symbols.

Variable

Associates a name with a data-type value that can change.

Constant Variable

A variable whose value does not change during the execution of a program.

Operator

Represents a data-type operation, such as arithmetic or logical operations.

Function

A block of reusable code that carries out a specific task and can return a value.

Expression

A combination of literals, variables, operators, and non-void function calls.

Statement

A syntactic unit that expresses some action to be carried out in a program.

Assignment Statement

Used to define variables, establishing a name for a value or expression.

Operator Precedence

The rules defining the order in which operations are performed in an expression.

Boolean

Represents truth values, either true or false, in programming.