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    "# Variables and Data Types"
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    "The foundational building block of (all) programming languages are *variables*.  They are often described as \"buckets\" to novice programmers - a place where various data (values) can be stored and retrieved by the program while it executes."
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    "## Primitives\n",
    "- [Strings](./strings.ipynb)\n",
    "- [Integers](./integers.ipynb)\n",
    "- [Floats](./floats.ipynb)\n",
    "- [Booleans](./booleans.ipynb)\n",
    "\n",
    "## Data Types\n",
    "- [Lists](./lists.ipynb)\n",
    "- [Dictionaries](./dictionaries.ipynb)\n",
    "- [Tuples](./tuples.ipynb)"
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