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... importantly: Programming languages are formal languages that have been designed to express computations. Formal languages tend to have strict rules about syntax. For example, 3 + 3 = 6 is a syntactically ... diagrams To keep track of which variables can be used where, it is sometimes useful to draw a stack diagram. Like state diagrams, stack diagrams show the value of each variable, but they also show ... interpreter and use it as a calculator. Python s syntax for math operations is almost the same as standard mathematical notation. For example, the symbols , and denote addition, subtraction and division,...
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... syntactic structure of a program, analo- gous to a word in a natural language. parse: To examine a program and analyze the syntactic s tructure. print statement: An instruction that causes the Python ... than what the programmer intended. semantics: The meaning of a program. natural language: Any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally. formal language: Any one of the languages ... Operators and operands Operators are special symbols that represent computations like addition and multiplication. The values the operator uses are called operands. The following are all legal Python...
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Tài liệu HOW TO THINK LIKE BENJAMIN GRAHAM AND INVEST LIKE WARREN BUFFETT PART 9 pptx
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