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Hello and welcome.

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In this video I will explain what the statements are in computer programming.

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What is a statement compared to language a statement basically is a God of words.

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Numbers are paratus that performs a specific task.

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Now this group of words could also include things like comments comments are basically a way of explaining

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in various parts of your computer code.

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So a statement is a combination of words numbers operators and the various components that the programming

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language needs to create a program.

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So the first component of a statement can include vallieres values.

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I like the data that the computer program needs to function.

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For example a value could be a number it could be a text which in programming terms is referred to as

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a string.

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It can also be expression.

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It could also be operators like a plus operator minus operator.

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Those are known as operators could be a keyword like VAR.

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Could be comments.

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So these are various components that you can have in a statement.

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When a computer program runs it looks at distastes meant in the code and it runs or executes from top

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to bottom left to right one by one just to where you fully read the book from top to bottom.

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Computer programming is executed or runs the computer programs from top to bottom and from left to right.

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So usually the order is executed in the same order in which this statement is read written in computer

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programming to run a program is to execute a program statement is just like a sentence in English language.

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And just like in sentences you can have different components that make up the sentence.

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A typical computer program will consist of multiple statements.

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I have opened up a blank web page and the rest is called About column blank so if you type this in to

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your web browser and just press enter it will give you a blank page.

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So you were going to do is going to access the developer tool console so to do that.

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If you just right click click on inspect and click on console and that will give you the console area.

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So in this area here we can play around and experiment with some javascript code some won't to write

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a very simple javascript statement.

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So I'm going to say a quartz to

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be times.

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7.

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This is a complete statement.

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Even do a simple.

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It's a complete statement.

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Just like in the English language you can end your statement with a full stop in some programming languages.

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They have different plantations depending on the language in javascript.

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You typically end your statement with a say in my column.

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This is a typical valid statement in javascript.

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Let me quickly run through the statement with you that Characters A and B are called variables variables

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are basically like simple boxes that you can use to store any of your stuff in computer programming

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and you can use variables to store data.

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Okay programs variables are used to hold values in value could be a number like 7 and the values are

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things or data that the program will use.

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So you can think of variables as a symbolic place holder for the values that they contain.

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Now this number 7 here is basically is a value in itself and is called a literal value.

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This is because it stands alone without being stored in a variable.

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That equals to this as written here both characters are called operators.

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They are used to perform actions with the values of variables such as an assignment and my mouth might

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be called multiplication.

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This equals tool is known as an assignment operator and this asterisk is no nothing more triplication

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operator.

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So basically what this is doing here is saying that he is a force to the value of b time.

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7.

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All right so once you get the value of your time to buy 7 story back in a.

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That's basically what that statement is saying.

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There are different types of operator.

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This is just one that I have illustrated with.

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Now most statement in group and or are concluded with a semicolon at the end.

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This is specific to jamas group.

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Other languages have different syntax requirement.

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So this statement causes B time 7 basically tells the computer to get the current value that is stored

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in the variable.

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B.

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Multiply that value by 7 then store the result back into the variable we call a.

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That's what this statement is saying.

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So programs are just a collection of many statements which together describe all the steps that it takes

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to perform a computer program.

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So you may have a busy program for example that adds numbers together so the various steps that you

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have to specify for the computer to follow they are collectively referred to as statements.