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Link: Oct 20 class

Formal computer language -> mathematical or computing, not spoken, expressing ideas that can be processed

Procedural / Imperative -> tell the computer what to do, compare to following a recipe

  • bash
  • Python
  • PHP, Java, javascript, Rudy....

Declarative -> more descriptive, domain specific, compare to improv cooking

  • SVG
  • CSS, HTML
  • Lisp, Prolog
  • XPath

ipython: text is always the exception. put quotes around it. name = "inge" -> expression gets stored in a variable

name ="..." print "Hello", name, "etc"

str = string = textual object int = integer float = not whole number, eg 1.56

x = """inge
  ....: and
  ....: more
  ....: stuff
  ....: and more
  ....: stuff"""
In [16]: x
Out[16]: 'inge\nand\nmore\nstuff\nand more\nstuff'