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	MusimatTutorialSection (B0101)

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MusimatTutorialSection

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B0101

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Print("*** B.1.1 Basic Elements ***");
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B.1.1 Basic Elements

Virtually all programming languages, including Musimat, share the following characteristics:

o Flow control — Specifying the order in which the steps are to be taken.

o Data types — Naming the kinds of objects to be operated on and describing their behaviors. Types 
of numbers, such as integer and real are common basic data types.

o Variables — Names of places to hold data of various types.

o Operators — A set of actions that can be performed on data. Operations like “add”, “assign”, and 
“select” perform well-defined operations on the data. 

o Conditional evaluation — Making decisions based on circumstances and taking appropriate 
action. 

o Iteration — If an algorithm is to be applied repeatedly to data, for instance, the way Euclid’s 
method does, then we need a way to express this.

o Recursion — If a future output depends upon a current or previous output as well as possibly the 
current inputs, we say that the relationship is recursive.

o Data structures — It is sometimes necessary to group data into collections, such as sets, lists, 
arrays, and matrices. The types of these data structures can be homogeneous (all alike) or heter-
ogeneous (a mixed bag).

o Named methods — When we’ve developed a set of instructions that does something useful, we 
want to be able to give it a name, like “Euclid’s method” or “Guido’s method.” Since programming 
languages developed out of the mathematics of functions, we use functional notation to represent 
the operation of methods.

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