Basics: The assignment operator

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You use the assignment operator = to assign a value to a variable:

let count = 2
const age = 23

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Literals, identifiers and variables
2: Comments
3: The difference between let, const and var
4: Types
5: Operators and expressions
6: Let's start with arithmetic operators
7: ▶︎ The assignment operator
8: Operators precedence
9: Strings
10: Numbers
11: Semicolons, white space and sensitivity