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IGCSE Computer Science 0478: Basic data types and literals

Students learn the INTEGER, REAL, CHAR, STRING and BOOLEAN data types, how each literal is written, and how to choose a suitable type for a value.

One content description from the full IGCSE Computer Science 0478 — 8.1a Data Types and Variables journey. All 9 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.

Modules (9)

1 INTEGER data type 2 REAL data type 3 CHAR data type 4 STRING data type 5 BOOLEAN data type 6 Telling literals of each type apart 7 Choosing between INTEGER and REAL 8 Choosing between CHAR and STRING 9 Choosing a suitable data type for a value
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