Q.  What is programming?
A.  Programming is when you give a computer a set of instructions you want it to carry out.
 
Q.  What is the point of programming
A.  To make complicated tasks easier (and often automated).
 
Q.  What are all the numbers between 1 and 100, when added to one another and totaled?
A.  I have no idea -- this is why we have programming.
 
Variables can be designated into 3 categories:
Number stuff
Letter and number stuff
and Non letter / number stuff.
 
Numbers:
Int - integer.   Ex.  1, 5, 27, 239, -123
Long - very long integer.  Ex. 216,345,234
Float - Floating point number. Ex. 1.5, 2.789, 213.123
Double - Floatings point numbers that are large.
 
Variables.
Q. What is a variable
A. A variable is something you define. 
 
a = 5; // a would be an integer
 
Letter and number stuff
String - Whole words, and word / number mixtures.  Ex."Hello World" "abc123"
char - Single character.   Ex: a, b, c......z,  1, 2, 3, $
 
Non-letter / number stuff
Boolean - (bool in c++ and boolean in java).  A variable that holds a true or false value.
 
 
int itemsonhand = 9
string helloStr = hello world
 
output itemsonhand -  9
output helloStr - hello world

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