Step 5 of 15 · C · Putting a value in
Pick the value, drop it in
score
100
score is named — but still empty.
Step 1 / 10idle
Now the box has a name — time to put a value inside.
Putting a value into a box is called assignment — the act of giving the box something to hold.
Howie picks the value he wants, opens the lid, lowers the value in, and closes the box back up.
In code, you will see an equals sign between the box name and the value — but it is not asking "are these equal?".
Read the equals sign out loud as "becomes" or "gets" — the box on the left becomes the value on the right.
After the drop, the name and the value are linked — saying the name is the same as saying the value inside.
You can drop any family of value in: a number, some text, a yes/no — whatever the box is meant to hold.
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Quick check
When Howie drops a value into a box, the best way to read that step out loud is…
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After Howie drops the number 100 into the box named **score**, what does the program know?