This is a general purpose tutorial for multiple languages. For the Javascript-specific version of this lesson that focuses on fundamentals frontend engineers need to know, please click here.

Throughout the day, we often need to store a piece of information somewhere and refer to it later.

We encounter these situations while writing a computer program as well, where we often need to store some information or data temporarily. For this specific purpose, variables are used. These variables can store almost any type of data, whether they are numbers, strings, or lists. Data is stored in variables by assign-ing data values to them. This lesson will expand on this topic and discuss variables and their assignment in detail.