Chapter 3 - Summary¶

Chapter 3 included the following concepts from computing.

• Arithmetic Expression - An arithmetic expression contains a mathematical operator like - for subtraction or * for multiplication.
• Assignment - Assignment means setting a variable’s value. For example, x = 5 assigns the value of 5 to a variable called x.
• Assignment Dyslexia - Assignment Dyslexia is putting the variable name on the right and the value on the left as in 5 = x. This is not a legal statement.
• Integer Division - Integer division is when you divide one integer by another. In some languages this will only give you an integer result, but in Python 3 it returns a decimal value, unless you use the floor division operator, //.
• Modulo - The modulo, or remainder operator, %, returns the remainder after you divide one value by another. For example the remainder of 3 % 2 is 1 since 2 goes into 3 one time with a remainder of 1.
• Tracing - Tracing a program means keeping track of the variables in the program and how their values change as the statements are executed. We used a Code Lens tool to do this in this chapter.
• Variable - A variable is a name associated with computer memory that can hold a value and that value can change or vary. One example of a variable is the score in a game.