072. OCR A Level (H046-H446) SLR13 – 1.4 Primitive data types

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About this video

OCR Specification Reference
AS Level 1.4.1a
A Level 1.4.1a

In this video we explore a range of primitive data types available in almost all programming languages, these include: Integers, Reals/Floats, Chars, Strings and Booleans.

Key question:

- What is meant by the term data type?

00:00 Primitive data types
00:06 Intro
00:11 Data types
00:41 What is a primitive data type?
01:11 Integer
01:23 Real
01:45 Character
02:02 String
02:21 Boolean
02:47 Casting data types
03:24 Different language, same concept
04:03 Key question
04:14 Going beyond the specification
04:26 Integer, real and more
05:24 Outro

Last updated: 16.06.26

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• SLR 13 – Data types