Question

What do you mean by expression ‘a = 8’? (computer)​

Answer 1

Answer:

In computer science, an expression is a syntactic entity in a programming language that may be evaluated to determine its value. ... In simple settings, the resulting value is usually one of various primitive types, such as numerical, string, boolean, complex data type or other types.

Answer 2

Answer:

It means you are 'assigning a value'

Explanation:

When we say 'a=8'

It means we are storing the value '8' in 'a'.

Note: Always the value on the right gets stored in the variable on the left

So, 8=a will be wrong.

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