Computer Science › Section B · Data storage › Topic B.8
Data and programming
A programming language lets you name data and compute with it without handling bit patterns yourself. A first look at Python shows how integers, floats and text from the earlier topics appear in real code, and what goes wrong when types are mixed up.
In this topic
- From bit patterns to programs
- A first statement
- Variables and assignment
- Types and their representations
- Arithmetic operators
- Worked example: splitting a time
- Working with strings
- Three kinds of error
- Worked example: debugging an average
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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