Variables

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What is meant by an identifier?: The name given to a variable in a program
Which term describes the rule that message and Message are treated as two different names in a program?: Case sensitive
What is meant by the value of a variable?: The data that is held inside a variable while the program runs
What is placed around a text value such as the word Hull when it is stored in a variable?: Quotation marks
A program contains the line city = 'Hull'. Which term describes the word city?: The identifier
What is a variable in a program?: A named space in memory that stores data
What does the equals sign do in the line temperature = 18?: It sets the value that the variable holds
Which of these could be used as an identifier in Python?: ScoreOne
A program contains score = 10 and then Score = 20. What is stored in the variable score?: 10
What is stored in the variable a at the end of this program?: 25
What is stored in temperature after the second line of this program runs?: 19
Variables are often used to keep a score in a quiz. Why is a variable suitable for this?: Its value can be changed while the program runs
A program has the line name = 'Elizabeth'. Which line uses the value stored in the variable name?: print(name)
A programmer wants the variable temperature to store the number 18. Which line does this?: Temperature = 18
What is stored in the variable score at the end of this program?: 9

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