Comments
It is standard programming practice to leave human-readable comments.
This helps other programmers understand what you've written. A comment either starts with //
and continues to the end of the line, or encloses all the text between the special character sequence /*
and */
.
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Notice there is one ray of the sun in the image above which is not print out, and it appears in a different color when we see it as code. This is because the backward slash (\
) is an escape character, which allows us to represent certain special characters like the new line character (\n
).
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