An Introduction to Procedural Programming Using Flowgorithm

$1.$ What is a Variable?

declaration of string variable named "playersName"

You can think of a variable as similar to a small box you use to hold something; it is a container. For our purposes, our container can hold things of a given type. Some of the types of things include integers $($whole numbers, like $"999"),$ floating point numbers $($numbers that have a decimal point, like $"3\mathrm{.}14")$ and text, which we will refer to as "strings", which you can thing of as being short for "strings of letters and$/$or numbers and$/$or other symbols, like punctuation"$).$ The computer refers to variables using the memory address containing the value of the variable, such as $7$F$793950000.$ That's a bit awkward for human beings to remember and reference, so we refer to variables using a symbolic name, such as $"$x$"$ or $"$j$",$ or $($even better$)$ a meaningful variable name, such as playersName.