8Storing data

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What you will learn

You might find this surprising, but you’ve already learned most of what you need to know to tell a computer what to do. You can write a program that gets data from the user, stores it, makes decisions based on data values, and repeats behaviors using loop constructions. You also know how to use functions to break a solution down into components. These are the fundamentals of programming, and all programs are built on these core capabilities.

However, there is one more thing you need to know before you can write most any kind of program. You need to be able to write programs that can manage large amounts of ...

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