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  • Useful Commands, Controlling Order of Operations, Suppressing Outputs

    Useful Commands, Controlling Order of Operations, Suppressing Outputs

    Today’s lesson will the following topics: 1. Useful Commands 2. Suppressing Outputs using Semicolon 3. Controlling Order of Operations Useful Commands (a) “clc” : Clears the Command Window. Check out the 3 images below (read the captions) (b) “clear all” or “clear” : Clears all variables from the workspace. Check out the captions on the…

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  • Creating and Overwriting Variables

    Creating and Overwriting Variables

    In today’s lesson, we are going to be discussing the following topics: 1. What is a variable? How is it created? 2. Using Variables in Problems 3. Overwriting Variables What is a Variable? A variable is a word or letter that stores a value (a number) within it. This is so we can use it…

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