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Topic: Variable (computer science)


  
 Variable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computer science and mathematics, a variable is a symbol denoting a quantity or symbolic representation.
Variables are useful in mathematics and computer programming because they allow instructions to be specified in a general way.
Usually, a variable is set to reside in some scope in program code, and entrance and leave of the scope coincides with the beginning and ending of a variable life, respectively.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Variable   (2024 words)

  
 Analog computer - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
An analog computer (American English) or analogue computer (British English) is a form of computer using electronic or mechanical phenomena to model the problem being solved by using one kind of physical quantity to represent another.
The term is used in distinction to digital computers, in which physical or mechanical phenomena are used to construct a finite-state machine which is then used to model the problem being solved.
There is an intermediate group, hybrid computers, in which a digital computer is used to control and organize inputs and outputs to and from attached analogue devices; for instance analogue devices might be used to help generate initial values for iterations, or the analog computer might be used to solve a non-analytic differential equation problem.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /analog_computer.htm   (827 words)

  
 Assignment (computer science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In most imperative computer programming languages, the assignment operation is one of the basic operations.
This means that the same variable name will possibly stand for different values at different times; the variables are not handled in the same way as the unknowns x, y, z...
In this sample, the variable x is first declared as an int, and is then assigned the value of 10.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assignment_(computer_science)   (416 words)

  
 Variable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In computer science and mathematics, a variable is a symbol denoting a quantity or symbolsymbolic representation.
In general, a variable binds an object (computer science)object/ to a name so that the object could be accessed later, much like a person has a name and people could refer to him by that name.
Usually, a variable is set to reside in some scope (programming)scope/ in program code, and entrance and leave of the scope coincides with the beginning and ending of a variable life, respectively.
www.infothis.com /find/Variable   (2252 words)

  
 Computer Science Department 2004-2005 SMSU Undergraduate Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
CSC 131 Introduction to Computer Science I. Prerequisite: CSC 130 or concurrent enrollment, and eligible for MTH 261.
A study of two classes of languages: formal languages (regular, context-free, and computable) and their associated machines (finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines); and programming languages, including the essential features of imperative, functional, object-oriented, and logic programming languages, together with their design and implementation on modern computers and virtual machines.
This is a variable content course that may be repeated to a total of 6 semester hours in Cooperative Education.
www.smsu.edu /recreg/dept_cs.html   (2582 words)

  
 COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Computer science is the systematic study of algorithmic methods for representing and transforming information, including their theory, design, implementation, application, and efficiency.
Applicants to the computer science program should bring a copy of their current UB DARS report directly to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering by October 1 or February 1 of the semester after the four required courses are completed.
Admission into the computer science minor is based on completion of any three of the courses that constitute a minor in computer science with a minimum GPA of 2.5 in those courses.
undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu /cat9900/computer.htm   (3485 words)

  
 Computer Science
Given expressions e1, e2; e1 matches with e2 iff: (1) e1 and e2 are the same constant, or (2) e1 is a variable, or (3) e1 and e2 are applications with the same number of components, and each component of e1 matches the corresponding component of e2.
A variable e1 appears in the expression e2 iff e2 is the same variable, or e2 is an application and there exists a component of e2 such that e1 appears in e2.
Given a substitution S and the expression e1, substituting e1 with S is replacing, for all variable V, every appearance of V in e1 with the expression which is the second component of the pair whose first component is V in the substitution.
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 Computer Science
Computer Science is located at the heart of the campus.
Computer Science Departments in the rest of the UK.
Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea
www.swan.ac.uk /compsci   (73 words)

  
 Introduction to Computer Science
The declaration of an array variable allocates the storage to hold a reference to an array, not the array itself.
The use of new with explicit array dimensions allocates the necessary storage for the indicated number of copies of objects of the indicated type and declares the indicated variable to be a reference to the first element of the array.
The variable declared as the array name is a reference to the first element of the array (the one with all indices equal to zero), and array indexing is done by adding the value implied by the indices to the memory location implied by the reference.
www.bernstein-plus-sons.com /.dowling/CSC012/class_summaries/11-8   (1078 words)

  
 Computer Science: Publication: The variable containment problem
This property is important when we want to consider (unknown variable t)\to u$ as a rewrite rule and keep (unknown variable n)$-step rewriting decidable.
Variable containment is in general \emph{not} implied by $\mathrm{FV}_{\beta}(t)\supseteq\mathrm{FV}_{\beta}(u)$.
For full $\lambda^\to$ we show the equivalence of variable containment to an open problem in the theory of PCF; this equivalence also shows that the problem is decidable in the third-order case.
www.cs.kent.ac.uk /pubs/1995/565   (230 words)

  
 Computer Science
In the Matrix computers play the role of reality, they are everything you know, see, hear and feel; your entire life exists only in the matrix.
Impact of Software Software can do physical damage to computer equipment (in the form of viruses), or have social ramificationrogrammers should not use computers to cause harm to users and should consider the impact of a program on society before writing a program.
Programmers have a responsibility to produce software that is as reliable as possible and to report and/or repair problems that may affectt the reliablity of the system.
leejr930.blogspot.com /2004_02_01_leejr930_archive.html   (1301 words)

  
 Computer Science Terminology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A variable expression is evaluated by looking up the variable in the current environment and returning the value bound to it.
Global variables in Scheme have global extent: once bound to a value, they continue to have that value and to exist for the remainder of that session.
Parameter variables in Scheme, by contrast, have limited extent: they are only valid and bound to a particular value during the evaluation of a particular procedure call.
www.macalester.edu /~fox/cs123/terminology.html   (593 words)

  
 Computer Science Department
Now, computer scientists working in research and development are striving to make robots practical aides which demonstrate some aspects of intelligence, are using databases to discover new knowledge, and are using computers to help map human DNA as well as the DNA of other animals.
Computer Science 311, which meets the university requirements for an upper-division writing course, must be completed before the senior year.
This shall include Computer Science 440, 461, 589, 597 or 598; one of 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547 or 548; and 15 units of electives (9 units must be at the 500 level).
www.fullerton.edu /catalog/academic_departments/cpsc.asp   (4203 words)

  
 SUNYIT Computer Science Dept.
The topic may, for example, be the theoretical and programmatic study of a methodology for a class of computational problems, an introduction to a research area of computing, or an in-depth examination of the usage and internals of a software artifact or framework.
A rigorous introduction to discrete mathematics as it is used in computer science.
Explains how to write professional computer documentation, from writing a proposal, to gathering data, to designing a document and related visuals, to running a usability test on the material, to revising style and polishing the final reference.
www.cs.sunyit.edu /degree/ug-courses.php   (3708 words)

  
 Computer Science 1 -- 3.5.1 Variable Declarations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A variable declaration is a program statement which instructs the compiler
identifier is the name of the variable which may be used from the point of the declaration to the end of the method;
It is an error to declare a variable twice (in the same scope, see later).
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 Static scoping : Lexical variable scoping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In computer science, static scoping, as opposed to dynamic scoping, is a way that the scope of certain variables is determined according to its position in program code.
That variable is then guaranteed to have nothing to do with any other variable named balance anywhere else in the program, or indeed with the variable named balance in other calls to the same function.
This allows programmers to guarantee that their private variables will not accidentally be accessed or altered by functions that they call, and is considered a significant improvement over the older dynamic variable scoping.
www.eurofreehost.com /le/Lexical_variable_scoping.html   (312 words)

  
 JavaScript Tutorial
When you declare a variable by assignment outside of a function, it is called a global variable, because it is available everywhere in the current document.
You should create variables for a specific type, such as an integer, string, or array, and be consistent in the values that you store in the variable.
It was slightly modified for use in A Bridge to Computer Science, Summer 1998, by Lisa Cozzens.
www.cs.brown.edu /courses/bridge/1998/res/javascript/javascript-tutorial.html   (4156 words)

  
 Computer Fundamentals Tutorials - Computer Science Tutorials - Provided by Laynetworks.com
A variable is a quantity which changes by taking on the value of any constant in the algebraic system.
There are only two values of constants in the system- therefore a variable can only be zero or one.
The truth table consists of two parts; one part comparising all combinations of values of the variables in a statement (or algebraic expression), the other part containing the values of the statement for each combination.
www.laynetworks.com /cs01.htm   (521 words)

  
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