Unit 6 p4

BTEC level 3 Extended Diploma in IT(Software Development)

Unit 6 + 14 – Software Design and Development / Event Driven Programming

Assignment - Task 1 - Programming languages

Draft submission deadline: 23rd March 2014

FINAL submission deadline: 28th March 2014

Scenario: 

Unit 6: P4 - Outline the benefits of having a variety of data types available to the programmer

Outlines the range of data types available to a programmer

Discusses the different purposes for which data types can be used.

Explains why it is useful to have various data types available.

 

It is useful to have various data types because if we only had one choice of a data type then a system would crash as the values would be incorrect also not having the right choice of the data type his could result in excessive amounts of storage space being set aside.