UMBC CMSC201, Computer Science I, Spring 1994 Sections 0101, 0102 and Honors

Tuesday February 8, 1994

Assigned Reading: 2.4 - 2.5

Handouts (available on-line): none

Topics Covered:

• Review GetInteger, GetReal and GetLine. Here's a program that uses all three. Sample output.
• Rules for valid identifiers.
• Variable types and what kind of values they can hold.
  • Floating point constants:

           3.14159
           314.159e-2
           

  • not floating point constants:

           3,141.59	/* no commas allowed */
           314159	/* this is an integer constant */
           -3.14159	/* this is an expression */
           

  • Character Constants:

           'a'		
           '0'
           

  • Boolean Constants:

           TRUE
           FALSE