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When writing software code, you will spend a lot of time defining, reading and changing variables. Using a variable means you use a descriptive word in your code which holds some information (a number, some text, an object, etc.). This descriptive word is the “title” of the stored information. For example: [crayon-662b7015ca9b5811994899/] Variables … Continue reading Passing by Value vs. by Reference Visual Explanation →
Introduction Lets continue with the idea of a video game that we introduced in the first part of this article. Imagine your player has a name. This could be hard coded, but what if the player gets to pick the name, in which case it is dynamic. This would be a case where a text … Continue reading Variables in Python 3 – Part 2: Text →
