{"id":885,"date":"2026-02-13T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:46:00","slug":"7-1-understanding-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/gamebit-en\/7-1-understanding-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"7.1 Understanding Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A &#8220;<strong>Variable<\/strong>&#8221; is a medium used to store data. You can imagine a variable as a <strong>box<\/strong>. This box can store any type of data. We can put the Orange Dinosaur inside, or we can put pizza or fried chicken in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eng-07-1_01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1166\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This &#8220;<strong>Variable<\/strong>&#8221; box can be passed around. The recipient can open the box to retrieve the data inside or replace it with new data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1185\" src=\"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/07-1_02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once data is stored, it remains in its last saved state unless we change it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1136\" src=\"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/07-1_03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-384\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1148\" src=\"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/07-1_01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-382\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This &#8220;<strong>Variable<\/strong>&#8221; box can be passed around. The recipient can open the box to retrieve the data inside or replace it with new data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1185\" src=\"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/07-1_02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once data is stored, it remains in its last saved state unless we change it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1136\" src=\"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/07-1_03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-384\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;Variable&#8221; is a medium used to store data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gamebit-en","8":"category-freeinfo-en","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.circuspi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}