how to think like a computer scientist learning with python

... computer programs. All programming languages are formal languages. natural language: Any of the languages people speak that have evolved nat- urally. portability: A property of a program that can run ... seen are declarations, assignments, and print state- ments. declaration: A statement that creates a new variable and determines its type. assignment: A statement that assigns a value to a variable. expression: ... important here: the name of the variable we pass as an argument (argument) has nothing to do with the name of the parameter (phil). Let me say that again: The name of the variable we pass as an argument...

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... 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 ... Formal and natural languages 5 1.4 Formal and natural languages Natural languages are the languages people speak, such as English, Spanish, and French. They were not designed by people (although ... the basic elements of the syntactic structure of a program, analogous to a word in a natural language. parse: To examine a program and analyze the syntactic structure. print statement: An instruction...

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... 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 interpreter to display a value on ... 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 ... screen. 2.3 Variable names and keywords 13 A common way to represent variables on paper is to write the name with an arrow pointing to the variable’s value. This kind of figure is called a state diagram because...

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