Zusammenfassung der Ressource
DATA
- Essential element for which all computers work.
- TYPES OF DATA
- Determines how it is represented on the computer
and the types of process they can have
- SIMPLE
- Essential values in any programming language
- NUMERIC
- Integer numbers: do not contain
decimal points and cover negative
and positive
- Real numbers: long numbers with
decimal points. Also negative and
positive
- LOGIC
- Boolean numbers
- Only true or false. Yes or
no. For determined
conditions
- ALPHANUMERIC
- Character data: contain only one character:
digits or special symbols. They can't be used for
arithmetic operations.
- String data: combine alphabetic,
special and numeric characters.
They have to be encased in
quotation marks.
- COMPLEX