Data Types

This section will introduce you to the most foundational concepts of Sonar programming –– data types.

Data is the building block of all computer programs. Programs are created by combining and manipulating different kinds of data in ways that make them do things, and a skilled programmer is one who knows the best ways to manipulate data in their programs.

Programs can be composed of different kinds of data and data type is the term computer programmers use to refer to each individual kind of data in their programs.

There are many different data types in Sonar, and the next sections will begin to explain them by describing each of them from the simplest to the more complex data types.