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Intro To Variables Python

This document introduces variables in programming. It explains that variables are declared with a name on the left side of an equals sign and assigned a value on the right side. Once initialized, the variable's name can then be used to refer to its value. The document also demonstrates that variable values can later be updated by reassigning the variable to a new value or by performing operations on its current value.

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Intro To Variables Python

This document introduces variables in programming. It explains that variables are declared with a name on the left side of an equals sign and assigned a value on the right side. Once initialized, the variable's name can then be used to refer to its value. The document also demonstrates that variable values can later be updated by reassigning the variable to a new value or by performing operations on its current value.

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Intro to Variables

Brandon Krakowsky
Variable Initialization
• Variable initialization refers to the act of declaring a variable (giving it a name) and assigning it a
value. A variable's name is declared on the left side of the = and its value on the right side. This
can be done in a single line of code, like the below. Note that a variable's name may not contain
spaces or special characters, with the exception of the underscore _.

my_variable = 1 #my_variable is set to 1

• Once initialized, referring to my_variable in subsequent lines of code will actually refer to
my_variable's value, which has been set to 1. However, as their name implies, variables can have
changing values. For example, we might do something like the below:

my_variable = 1 #my_variable is set to 1


print(my_variable) #Prints out the value of my_variable, which is 1

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Updating Variables
• Here we change the value of my_variable to be (1 * 2) = 2

my_variable = 1 * 2
print(my_variable) #Prints out the value of my_variable, which is now 2

• We can also reference a variable's current value in it's own re-assignment! This can be done if the
variable has already been assigned a value previously. For example:

my_variable = my_variable * 3
print(my_variable) #Prints out the value of my_variable, which is now 6

- What the above line is doing is setting the value of my_variable equal to the current value of
my_variable, which we set to 2, multiplied by 3. This ends up being: my_variable = 2 * 3 = 6

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