MIS 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Scientific Notation, Tab Key, Concatenation

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 304
• Professor: khoo

Document Summary

The variable name begins with lowercase letters. The first character of the second and subsequent words is written in uppercase. Python allows displaying multiple items with one call to the print function. Garbage collection: removal of a variable reference from the python interpreter"s memory. Numeric literal: a number that is written into a program"s code. Reads a piece of data that has been entered at the keyboard and returns that piece of data. Put a space at the end of each string because the input function does not automatically display a space after the prompt. Exception: an unexpected error that occurs while a program is running, causing the program to halt if the effort is not properly dealt with. Math operators: a programmer"s tools for performing calculations. Positive result: truncated (fractional part thrown away) Only operator to execute from right to left. Math expression: performs a calculation and gives a value.