What does data type mean?
The kind of value a piece of data is: integer, real (float), Boolean, character or string. The type decides what can be done with the value and how much memory it takes.
Learn it
- Taught in F1.9 Arithmetic operators Programming basics, GCSE
Used in
- F1.8 Data types and casting
- F1.10 Project: ask and drive
- F3.3 Lists: one-dimensional arrays
- F3.5 Two-dimensional arrays
- F3.6 Records
- F7.2 Relational databases
- A1.1 Data types and programming constructs
- A2.5 Procedural, functional and data abstraction
- A3.1 Arrays, records and tuples
- A3.2 Abstract data types and stacks
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