Workshop: Using Expressions
When you were younger in school, as you worked on a particularly unpleasant math problem, did you ever complain to a higher power, protesting that you would never use this knowledge in your life? Sorry to break this to you, but all your teachers were right—those math skills are going to be used in your computer programming.
That's the bad news. The good news is that the computer will do any of the math you ask it to do. As mentioned earlier in this hour, any instructions you give a computer program involving math are called expressions. Expressions will be used frequently in your computer programs. You can use them for tasks such as the following:
Changing the value of a variable
Counting the number of times something ...
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