Variables and Data Types

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 Agenda
• What is data?
• What is the need of data?
• What is data variable?
• What is data type?
• Various data-types in programming
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• Variables in a program
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 What is data?
• In computing, the data is the information that a program acts on to process and/or
change data during this process

• Data can be represented in the form of one bit to a complex data structure

• Data is an essential component on which a program acts and produces a

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 What is the need of data?
• To persist business related information

• To analyse data for better understanding of business metrics and auditing purpose

• Data is important for analysis and useful for extracting the relevant information for
further processing
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 What is data variable?
● Data variable is the name given to the memory location for storing data required
for computing algorithms

● Data variable has the associated data type which is responsible for storing certain
kind of data.
For example, in language like C++ / Java, developer has to declare a data type
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before storing a value. An integer data type can only store integer values, string
data type can store data in string format
In case of Python it is not required to declare the data type of a variable
beforehand

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 What is data type?
• Data Types are the categories of the data of certain kind

• Data Type especially defines the set of operations that can be performed on it

• Common basic data types are :

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 Various data-types in programming
• Integer:
– Data Type used to represent real numbers without any factions
• Example : 1, 2, 4 , 19, 1010

• Float:
– Data type used to represent a number having factions values for more precision
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of data storing as compared to integers.
• Example : 2.4, 101.67

• Character:
– Characters are simply 8 bits data having the values like A-Z or a-z or 0-9 of
special symbols
• Example: ‘A’, ‘a’, ‘9’, ‘$’
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 Various data-types in programming - continued
• String:
– Sequence of characters is called a String.
• Example : “Programming”

• Boolean:
– Boolean data type has two values associated. True either False
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 Variables in a program
• When a program executes, it needs data to work on which is stored in variables
• These variables exists till a program executes
• Data in variables is of two types:
– Persistent data : We read this data from database/files and store in variables
– Non Persistent data : This data is declared within a program and used during
the execution
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• A program uses both type of data to execute to give desired output

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 Summary
• We learned about what the data is and its types.
• We learned what a data variable is and why we need variables.
• How we use variables in a program?

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