The concept of abstraction will be introduced to you early in your computer programming career. Abstraction is simply the concept of taking more complex code…
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Comments are a way for you to add context to your code and more explanation.
Comments allow you to block out an area of code, so that it won’t be executed, but will still be preserved in a document.
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When you set up a variable, you are really setting up space that is going to hold something else in it.
Think of it like a container.
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In JavaScript, you can give names to functions, variables, objects, etc. (we will discuss these concepts in future posts). The name you give a variable should be understandable and clear given what you are using it for in your programming. When yo
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Now that we know what the main parts of a computer are and that everything to a computer is really about numbers in some way, let’s get into programming.
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It doesn’t matter if it’s a laptop, a desktop, a smartphone or a tablet, the devices we use today are all made up of similar functioning parts—just arranged together to fit into different-sized containers.
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Think of a binary system like your mother giving you this answer right before dinner—there are only two possibilities—a yes or a no. A binary numerical system is a base 2 system—meaning it only has two digits in its system (two possibilities represented by a 0 or a 1). When you go higher in place value, in a binary system, you double the value every time.
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