so any written program should bear this in mind.
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I have forgotten the syntax structure, IE the computer recognises numbers; capitals then lowercase,is this correct.
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Incomputer science, thesyntaxof aprogramming languageis the set of rules that define the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structuredprogramsin that language.
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What is syntax? As always, lets hop over to wiki for a quick definition:
So, lets sum up. In todays post, we have learned thatsyntaxjust means that theres a correct way towrite down your code, and that this allows theprogramming languageunderstandwhatit is thatyouretrying to tell itto do. Unfortunately for us, computers cant read our minds (yet!) and know what it is that we want them to do, so some very smart people have created this computer language that, when understood by programmers, allows us to tell the computer what actions we would like it to carry out whether that action be to send a bill payment to our credit card company, or to play a game of poker online with a virtual table full of strangers. Syntax is our systematic way to talk to a computer and convey our wishes.
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String helloVariable = Hello Everyone!;
Alright, so I would say thats almost English, but what do they mean by combinations of symbols that are correctly structured? Well, I would choose a different word than symbols. I would definesyntaxto be a particularlayoutofwordsand symbols. An example of this in the case of Java would be round brackets (), curly brackets , and variables, among other things. Think of it like this, when you look at anemailaddress(i.e.john.), you canimmediatelyidentifythe fact that its anemailaddressright? Sowhy is that? Why does your brain make the connection that its an email address, and not, say, a website address? Well, its because anemail addresshas aparticularsyntax. You need somecombinationofletters and numbers, potentially with underscores (_) or periods (.) in between,followed byan at (@)symbol, followed by awebsite domainsyntaxin a programming language is much the same, there are aset of rulesthat arein place, which when you follow them,allowsyourprogramminglanguagetounderstandyou and allow you to create some piece of functioning software. But, if you dont abide by the rules of a programming languages syntax, youll get errors ?
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Decided to learn C language and wish you could at least guide me to a link or something where i can find a good eBook? or a free C programming course?
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So, as I mentioned before, thesyntaxof any programming language willlikelybe yourbiggest hurdleas a new developer, but as you see more and more examples of code and are introduced to more and moresyntaxin the language, you will become comfortable.There is good newsthough, as people have realized that dealing with syntax can be tough, so certain companies (or groups of enthusiasts, a.k.a nerds) have createdtoolsto help us with thesyntaxof programming languages. Thesetoolsare calledIDEs, or,Integrated Development Environments, which you can download onto your computer and use to create programs. TheseIDEshave built insyntax checkers(much like the grammar checker in MS Word) that will let you know if yoursyntax is incorrect, and will even give you hints with what it thinks you meant to put! So dont you worry, Ill cover those tools in the next section of this 5 part series.
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How about an example ofsyntaxinJava? Well youve seen it already back when we talked about variables and control structures. Todefineavariablein Java, you need to do this:
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There arefour partsto the syntax of creating a variable in Java. Thefirstisthe wordString, this is the variablestype. Remember when we talked about variabletypesin the first part of this series? I mentionedString,IntegerandDouble, three different variabletypesthat allow you to store three differentkindsofdata. AStringin this case, allows you to store regular letters and special characters. Thesecondpartto this variable creation syntax is thevariablename, in this case I arbitrarily chosehelloVariable. I could have just as easily chosenholyCowThisIsAVariableName. Variable names can be made up of letters and numbers, but the only special characters they can contain are underscores (_). They also usually start with a lower case letter, they dont have to, but thats kind of an accepted and suggested convention (at least in the Java world). Thethirdpartof the syntax for creating a variable is thevaluethatthevariablewillhold. In this case, we have aStringvariable, so we have the valueHello Everyone!. In java, Strings are defined by wrapping regular letters/numbers/special characters in quotes ( ). Again, thats just thesyntaxthat Java uses. Thelast partof thissyntax, is the part thatmarksthis particular code segmentas being complete. In Java, we use the semi-colon (;) to mark a part of our code as complete. You will see that almost every line of code in Java will end with a semi-colon (;). There are certain exceptions to this, for example control structures arent marked with semi-colons, as they use curly braces to make their beginning and end. Think of it like putting a period at the end of every sentence. If we didnt put a period, we would just have one long unstructured run on sentence, and that wouldnt help us to understand anything thats being said.