Abstract: The purpose of this research-to-practice work-in-progress paper is to identify students' early misconceptions in the use of variables and assignment operators in a first-year computer ...

C# assignment operators assign an expression to a variable. Assignment sets the value of the expression. `ref` assignment sets the reference of a `ref` variable. A user-defined type can't overload the ...

Computers are designed to carry out calculations. Mathematical operators allow arithmetic to be performed on values.