Computer Science GCSE
Boolean operators
What Boolean operators means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Boolean operators
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Reference: OCR
Operators that work on truth values, each of which is either True or False, and let programs combine conditions.
Topics that use Boolean operators
- Programming fundamentals (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- AND
- Condition-controlled iteration
- input and output
- NOT
- operator precedence
- Selection
- variables and constants
- assignment
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