Variables

A Variable is like a...

• Car

• Horse

• Container

• Hammer

A String is a type of variable; What could it contain?

• String

• Selotape

• Only Numbers

• Letters and numbers

One type of variable data that we studied was a string- What was the other data type that we looked at?

• Integer or Number

• Straw

• 300

• x

which of these is most typically a variable in a game?

• Sandwich

• Number of Lives

• Foot

• Input

Which of these could be a name assigned to a variable?

• score

• x

• num1

• answer

• All of these

The word 'variable' is from the late Latin word variabilis.

What does it mean?

• Feret

• Stays the same

• Changeable

• unreliable

Here is a calculation using a variable -

score = score + 10

What happens in this statement?

• The score takes off 10

• Whatever score is, 10 will be added.

• West Ham win

• score cannot equal score + 10

Which of these calculations can be used to count down the number of questions that a quiz program has asked?

• questionsLeft = questionsLeft -1

• questionsLeft =0

• questionsLeft = questionsLeft +1

• questionsLeft = kettle

In the Python programming language, x -=1 is the same as...

• 1 - x

• x is not a number and cannot be calculated

• Syntax error

• x = x -1

In the Python programming language, == does what...

• Goes wrong

• is even more equal than normal

• Compares whatever is before it to whatever comes after it

• symbolises a

  bi-plane