What Is A Variable?

Table of contents

• Definition
• Use cases and Examples
• Summary

Definition

You can think of a variable like a bucket used to hold or store substance, in this the substance to be stored is data to be used within a program.

Use cases and Examples

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01: var x = 1;
02: var result = 2 +x;
03: console.log("result contains: ", result);

The above Javascript code has two variables namely x is assigned the value 1 and result to the sum of 2 and x which should be 3;

Summary

Variables usually can store whatever data type is available within the programming language under discussion.

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