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What is a variable?	In computer programming, a variable is a storage location paired with an associated symbolic name (an identifier), which contains some known or unknown quantity of information referred to as a value.
What is an identifier?	An identifier is simply the name of a program or the names of the variables within a program that are used to identify the relevant data/info. Typically, identifiers must start with a letter and must not have any spaces in them.
What are data types?	A data type in a programming language is a set of data with values having predefined characteristics. Examples of data types are: integer, floating point unit number, character, string, and pointer. Usually, a limited number of such data types come built into a language.
What are the different data types?	Integer - number Real - aprox of a real number Char - character String - text Boolean - true or false
What is an assignment?	An assignment statement sets and/or re-sets the value stored in the storage location(s) denoted by a variable name; in other words, it copies a value into the variable.
Describe Initialization...	Initialization is the assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable. The manner in which initialization is performed depends on programming language, as well as type, storage class, etc., of an object to be initialized.

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