Assignment

The Concept

An assignment statement sets and/or re-sets the value stored in the storage location(s) denoted by a variable name; in other words, it copies a value into the variable. In most imperative programming languages, the assignment statement (or expression) is a fundamental construct.

What to cover

• How to assign values How to assign a value to a variable.
• How to update a value How to update a variable's value.

Exercises

Lasagna cooking

This exercise deals with cooking a lasagna dish in the oven. The reference implementation (C#) teaches:

• How to assign a value to a variable.
• How to update a variable's value.

Implementations

Track	Exercise	Changes
C#	lucians-luscious-lasagna	None
Elixir	basics	Introduces binding values rather than assignment
JavaScript	basics	There is no updating of a variable
F#	lucians-luscious-lasagna	There is no updating of a variable
Ruby	basics