Data Type
Domain: Programming Fundamentals
🎯 Motivation
Computers need to know what kind of data they’re working with - text, whole numbers, decimals - because they handle each differently.
📋 Concrete Example
name = 'Alice' is a string, age = 14 is an integer, height = 1.65 is a float.
🔗 Analogy
Different shaped containers - you wouldn’t put soup in a pencil case. Each data type is a container shaped for its content.