Scripting and Programming Foundations WGU C173

Variable - -A named item, such as x or numPeople, used to hold a value. Assignment statement - -Assigns a variable with a value, such as x = 5. That statement means x is assigned with 5, and x keeps that value during subsequent statements, until x is assigned again. = is not equals - -In programming, = is an assignment of a left-side variable with a right-side value. = is NOT equality as in mathematics. Thus, x = 5 is read as "x is assigned with 5", and not as "x equals 5". When one see...