Programming Logic and Design Eighth Edition Chapter 2 Elements of High-Quality Programs

Programming Logic and Design Eighth Edition Chapter Two Elements of High-Quality Programs

Objectives

In this chapter, you will learn about:

· Declaring and using variables and constants

· Performing arithmetic operations

· The advantages of modularization

· Modularizing a program

· Hierarchy charts

· Features of good program design

Declaring and Using Variables and Constants

· Understanding Unnamed, Literal Constants and their Data Types

- Data types

· String is anything not used in math

- Different forms

· Integers and floating-point (also called real) numbers

· Numeric Constant (Literal numeric constant)

· String constants (alphanumeric values)