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 Nov 14 2005, 12:18 PM
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Example: 1 function checker() { var user_name="Billy Moore" var user_password="billy moore" var entered_user_name=prompt("Please Enter User Name: ", " "); var entered_user_password=prompt("Please Enter User Password: " , " "); if ((entered_user_name == user_name) && (entered_user_password == user_password)) { document.write("Your Officially Logged In!"); } else { document.write("Your User Name and /or password is incorrect"); } } ....................................................... I was wondering what parts are the Expression and Statements. ...................................................... If you have anyother examples to my question that are better examples Please Do reply. What i'm looking for is a diagram of what is what. Thanks |
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Nov 14 2005, 04:12 PM
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 Hail Groovicus! Group: Site Admin Posts: 8,479 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Centerville, SD Member No.: 689 |
QUOTE An instruction written in a high-level language. A statement directs the computer to perform a specified action. A single statement in a high-level language can represent several machine-language instructions. Programs consist of statements and expressions. An expression is a group of symbols that represent a value. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/statement.html Can you figure it out from there? This sounds like a homework assignment, and I wouldn't want to give away too much. ;) EDIT: Just an FYI, the definitions hold no matter which language you happen to be learning. -------------------- |
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Nov 14 2005, 07:42 PM
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About Expressions:
Expressions Evaluate at RunTime inwhich Literals and /or Variables can be used. Literal's are the Actual Unit of Data and the Values stored In the Variables. Data Types include: Null....................Has No value Integer...............decimal, Hexadecimal, and Octal Floating Point......Decimal Integer, Exponet Boolean.............Logical True Of False, 1 - 0, Yes or No String................Collection of Characters inside Qoutes Arrays...............Is an Indexed List of Similar Items: var fav_cities=["Lufkin", "Longview", "Tyler"] Lufkin, Longview, and Tyler are the Arrays Objects.............It's the Named List of Disimilar Items: 1. It always returns a value. 2. 4 Types Of Expressions : *Arithmetic Expressions *Comparison Expressions *String Expressions *Logical Expressions Arithmetics Expressions: The Literal used here is an Integer. var sum=1 + 2 2 + 2 The expression is "1 + 2". The format is var sum=(operand, Operator, operand), and the "=" sign is the assignment operator that will store the result to the variable "sum". Operand is the Actual Data in this case it would be "2" and "2" Comparison Expressions With If/Else: The data type "Literal" used is called "Boolean" meaning True or false, yes or no , and ect. if ((entered_user_name == user_name) && (entered_user_password == user_password)) the Expression is in side the ( )'s. It's also a Logical Expression because it is compareing more then one expression. The Logical Operator is "&&" which means "AND" "==" is the Comparison Operator for that expression. It's saying that If (entered_user_name "Equals" user_name) AND (entered_user_password "Equals" user_password) take this path ELSE take another path. String Expressions: The Literal Used here is a String String Expressions are collection of Characters that goes inside Qoutes. var user_name="N2TheRed" there for "=" will return "N2TheRed" which is the value to the Variable "user_name". So the String Expression is "N2TheRed" in (var user_name="N2TheRed") So what about var number1="2" var number2="2" ......well since it's in qoutes they are no longer Integers they are Just Characters. say if you did this var number1="2" var number2="2" document.write(number1 + number2); the result that will be displayed would be "22" and not "4" what has happend is that the "+" operator now functions as "CONCATENATION" which is a string operator to join to strings together. So what we did as took the variable "number1" and it's string "2" and added it with variable number2 and it's string "2" There for since "+" is the Concatenation operator for String Expressions all we did was just Join the character 2 and 2 together to make 22. However if you wanted to achieve the sum of 2 and 2 you have to tell the Computer to take the "Strings" 2 and 2 and returns the Appropriate Number Corrisponding to that string. So we don't have Integers but we need to convert the String Value of (number1 and number2) to an integer. how we do that is by using "parseInt and parseFloat" parseInt is any whole number paseFloat is any number that contains a decimal There for we would have to say instead of var number1="2" var number2="2" document.write(number1 + number2); it would actually be var number1="2" var number2="2" document.write(parseInt(number1) + parseInter(number2); That's What I know so far about What Expressions are. I actually had to reread and think about what it was trying to show me. If I missed anything or got something wrong Please Let me know so I don't learn it the a wrong way. Thanks |
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Nov 14 2005, 07:50 PM
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Actually I knew that it was for all programming languages, however i thought it would be best
if I just said Which one I was working on just incase. But thanks. I actually think that I do have Expressions and statements down as far as how they function and operate. |
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Nov 15 2005, 10:28 AM
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Hail Groovicus! Group: Site Admin Posts: 8,479 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Centerville, SD Member No.: 689 |
Boolean is returned as either true or false, nothing else. How that true or false is interpreted is another matter entirely. A false could be a yes, a true could be a no...
Your description of an array declarations seems goofy... it looks to me like you are creating an array called fav_cities, and putting some strings into it. QUOTE 1. It always returns a value. What always returns a value? What is a void return type? You also need to look at your data types.. there are really only 2 different data types. What you are showing are subdivisions. It is important to understand the distinction. I'll give you a hint. One type starts with a 'p'. What data type is an array? You are getting a basic grasp of things, providing that you didn't just cut and paste from somewhere. 
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