In essence, all that a program does is take in data, process it, and give it to you in a processed format that you want. For example, YouTube takes in video data from one person and makes it available to many people. Video editing programs take raw video data and allows editors to edit the videos the way they want and gives them a final video file. Word document takes in your words and sentences and saves it to a file that you can read and edit at a later time.

How do computers store and process human data? There’s a protocol between humans and computers where a human will give data to a computer and will also need to tell it what kind of data it is. This is called the “data type”.

Therefore, understanding different and common data types that computers understand is key to building and programming anything. This is the first major concept new programmers should learn. This video explains the typical data types that we often use in C. Other languages use similar data types as well. Let’s go!

In this video, you’ll learn:
-How to display information in a program
-How to take in data from a user
-Common data types that programs use

Hope this helps!
-Henrik