Variables

The Concept

The concept of assigning a name to a piece of data. Some languages use static types whereas others allow dynamic types. Some languages only have constants, whereas others allow for mutability. A student might not be familiar with these different variations, but should be familiar in general with the assigning and using of variables.

What to cover

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

Implementations

Track	Exercise	Changes
C#	lucians-luscious-lasagna	None
Scala	basics	None