Earlier we talked about issues with storing things, like a phone number as a number, due to overflow and accuracy issues. So, we’re going to institute a general rule of programming. Only store something in a number when you are planning to, or could, perform mathematical operations on that number. So for example, you have…
Most modern languages have some built in complex data types that you can use. Characters and Strings For example most languages have the ability to work with strings and characters. In most languages a character is a single byte or two bytes in size, and can represent a letter, number, or special character like a…
On one end, some languages are “type-less” languages, meaning that they don’t have data types. Examples include COBOL, Python, JavaScript, and more, however, they usually do have them, they just hide the type from us which can dynamically change as the program runs depending upon how the data is being used. One the other end…
