Assignment

• The way that you put a value into the space named by the variable is called assignment:

• Note that this is not the same as “=“ in math. You can say things like:which means take the old value of x, add 1, and store it back into x.

int x, y;

x = 8;

y = 2 * x;

Take the value on the right of

the “=“ and store it into the place

named on the left.

x = x + 1;

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