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3 Types of Statement

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Initialisation   Setting starting values of variables before the variable is used in an expression as the variable may have previous values from a previous run. E.g. Totals & Counts must be set to zero.  
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Assignment   Sets the value of a variable. Can be written X = 0 or X  0 or X := 0.  
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Assignment/Comparison   Notice the difference between the = in X = 5 (assignment operator) and IF X = 5 (comparison operator).  
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Comparing Strings   Comparison of strings uses their character codes. Compares first characters code in the two strings if they are the same then the next character in the two strings is compared etc. Upper and lower case letters have different character codes.  
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Complex Boolean expressions   IF Colour = “Red” OR “Black” is an error (although not syntactically). It should be IF Colour = “Red” OR Colour = “Black”.  
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Operator Precedence   The default order in which operations in an expression are carried out. E.g. Division or multiplication done first and subtraction is done last.  
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