Computer Science GCSE
assignment
What assignment means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of assignment
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Reference: OCR
An assignment replaces the value held by a variable after evaluating the expression on its right.
Topics that use assignment
- Programming fundamentals (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- AND
- Condition-controlled iteration
- input and output
- NOT
- operator precedence
- Selection
- variables and constants
- Boolean operators
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