Week 4- JavaScript Data types and Variables

Question 1

What are three commonly used types of data?

Answer 1

Number, text and Boolean

Question 2

What are the forms that numerical data can come in?

Answer 2

Fractional (or floating point numbers) eg 3.1476 and whole (also known as intergers)

Question 3

What is another term for text data?

Answer 3

A string

Question 4

How do you tell Java that something is a string?

Answer 4

By using “ “ around the text eg “Hello”

Question 5

What is a reversed word?

Answer 5

A name that you cannot use for a variable in JavaScript eg ‘var’