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Hello and welcome.

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

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What is a statement.

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Computer language statement basically is a group of words numbers operators that performs a specific

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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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various parts of your computer code.

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So if statements 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 various components of a statement can include values.

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Values are like the data that the computer program needs to function.

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For example a value could be a number.

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It could be a text which In programming terms is referred to as 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 could be comments.

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So these are various components that you can have in a statement when the computer program runs it looks

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at the statements in the code and a runs or executes from top to bottom left to right one by one just

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to where you hopefully read the book from top to bottom computer programming is executed or runs the

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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 the statement is read written in computer

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programming to run the program means to execute a program a statement is just like a sentence in English

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language 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 I have opened up a blank web page and

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the web page is caught about column blank.

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So if you type this in to your web browser and just press enter it will give you a blank page.

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So what you gonna do is going to access the developer tool console so to do that if you just right click

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click on inspect and click on console.

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And that would give you the console era.

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So in this area here we can play around and experiment with some javascript code.

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So I'm going to write a very simple javascript statement so I'm gonna say a a to

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b times seven this is a complete statement even though it's simple 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 punctuation depending on their language in JavaScript.

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You typically end your statement with a semi colon.

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So this is a typical valid statement in JavaScript.

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Let me quickly run through the statement with you.

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The characters a and b are called variables variables are basically like simple boxes that you can use

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to store any of your stuff in in computer programming you can use variables to store data okay in programs.

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Variables are used to hold values of value could be a number like 7 and the values are things or data

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that the program will use.

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

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

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

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The course to this asterisk here.

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Both characters are called operators.

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They are used to perform actions with the values and variables such as an assignment and math.

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Mathematical multiplication.

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This equals two is known as an assignment operator.

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And this asterisk is known as a multiplication operator.

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So basically what this is doing here is saying that a is a course to the value of b times 7.

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All right.

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So once you get the value of b times it by seven and 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 now most statements in JavaScript and or are concluded

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with a semicolon at the end.

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This it's specific to JavaScript or other languages have different syntax requirement.

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So this statement K caused B times 7 basically tells a computer to get the current value that is stored

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in the variable 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 basic 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.

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They are collectively referred to as statements.