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Mission 200 Variables and Data Types Takeaways

The document outlines the basics of variables and data types in Python, including how to store, update, and manipulate values. It explains syntax rules for naming variables, the concept of assignment operators, and the classification of data types such as integers, floats, and strings. Additionally, it covers string concatenation and type conversion methods.

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Mission 200 Variables and Data Types Takeaways

The document outlines the basics of variables and data types in Python, including how to store, update, and manipulate values. It explains syntax rules for naming variables, the concept of assignment operators, and the classification of data types such as integers, floats, and strings. Additionally, it covers string concatenation and type conversion methods.

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Variables and Data Types: Takeaways

by Dataquest Labs, Inc. - All rights reserved © 2021

Syntax
• Storing values to variables:
twenty = 20

result = 43 + 2**5

currency = 'USD'

• Updating the value stored in a variable:


x = 30

x += 10 # this is the same as x = x + 10

• Rounding a number:
round(4.99) # the output will be 5

• Using quotation marks to create a string:


app_name = "Clash of Clans"

app_rating = '3.5'

• Concatenating two or more strings:


print('a' + 'b') # prints 'ab'

print('a' + 'b' + 'c') # prints 'abc'

• Converting between types of variables:


int('4')

str(4)

float('4.3')

str(4.3)

• Finding the type of a value:


type(4)
type('4')

Concepts
• We can store values in the computer memory. We call each storage location in the computer's
memory a variable.

• There are two syntax rules we need to follow when we're naming variables:
• We must use only letters, numbers, or underscores (we can't use apostrophes, hyphens,
spaces, etc.).

• Variable names can't begin with a number.


• Whenever the syntax is correct, but the computer still returns an error, we call this a runtime
error.

• In Python, the = operator tells us that the value on the right is assigned to the variable on the
left. It doesn't tell us anything about equality. We call = an assignment operator, and we
read code like x = 5 as "five is assigned to x" or "x is assigned five," not "x equals five."
• In computer programming, we classify values into different types — or data types. A value's
type offers the computer the information necessary to process that value. Depending on the
type, the computer will know how to store a value in memory, or which operations it can perform
on a value.

• In this lesson, we learned about three data types: integers, floats, and strings.
• We call the process of linking two or more strings together concatenation.

Resources
• More on Strings in Python.

Takeaways by Dataquest Labs, Inc. - All rights reserved © 2021

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