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STUART C. SHAPIRO: CSE 115 C

CSE 115
Introduction To Computer Science for Majors I
Lecture C
Lecture Notes #6
Stuart C. Shapiro
Spring, 2007

Variables

A variable can hold a reference to an object.
A variable is assigned a value via an assignment statement.
```
variable = expression ;
```
A variable is a symbolic address in memory.
A reference to an object is the address of that object's representation in memory.

Last modified: Sun Sep 23 15:24:49 EDT 2007
Stuart C. Shapiro <shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu>

Variables