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Typographical Conventions and Symbols

• Courier is used for the names of commands, files,

directories, programming code, programming

constructs, and on-screen computer output.

• Courier bold is used for characters and numbers

that you type, and for each line of programming code

that is referenced in a textual description.

•

Courier italics

is used for variables and

command-line placeholders that are replaced with a

real name or value.

•

Courier italics bold

is used to represent

variables whose values are to be entered by the student

as part of an activity.