Happy Monday, {{ First Name | Reader }}! Did you know the @ symbol has been around since the 16th century? Originally used by accountants to mean "at the rate of," it became iconic with emails in 1971 when the email was invented.
Today you will learn:
And you can test your English level (B1, B2 or C1) with a quick quiz 😏
VOCABULARY
Keyboard Symbols
Symbols have different names in American and British English. For example, a hash is called a pound sign in American English - which in British English is £… confusing, right? (Learn more)
From our previous poll, 73% of you are interested in British English, so we’ve gone with British keyboard symbol names in the picture above.
Brackets can be square [], curly {} or round (). They can also be open brackets [{( or close brackets )}].
Imagine you’re at a cafe and someone asks you for the WiFi code, which is: enjoyF00d?!
How would you say this?
“It’s: enjoy, all lowercase, capital F, double zero, d, question mark, exclamation mark”
TECH
Syntax
Syntax is the set of rules defining how to structure and write code in a programming language.
Firstly, let’s go over some key vocabulary related to syntax:
case sensitive → lowercase and uppercase letters are not equal
alphanumeric characters → a-z or 0-9
denote → to represent something
indentation → whitespace at the beginning of a line of code
Listen to the audio (or read the transcript) of a colleague telling you about the syntax of a new programming language they have written.
Which symbol is used to represent a comment?
What are the rules on indentation?
Would ‘duplication123’ be allowed as a function name? Why/why not?
True or False? As a variable name, AGE = Age = age
QUIZ
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B1: Intermediate
B2: Upper-Intermediate
C1: Advanced
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