curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-use-basic-programming-vocabulary-in-conversations/662b803fd9ddc00e943e350e.md
An assignment operator in programming is used to assign a value to a variable. In many programming languages, including Python, the assignment operator is represented by the = symbol. It tells the computer to store the value on the right side of the = into the variable named on the left side. For example, number = 10 assigns the value 10 to the variable number.
In Python, you declare variables by using the variable name and the BLANK BLANK. For example, you can declare a variable like this: name = 'Sophie'.
assignment
It refers to the action of setting values in programming.
operator
This word is used in programming to refer to a symbol that performs an operation, in this case, assigning a value.
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