Lectora Basics: What Is a Variable?

“I don’t get variables! I’d rather be nibbled to death by ducks than try to deal with them!”

Are you a Lectora® user who cringes at the mere mention of the word “variable?” You are not alone! The concept of variables is very simple, but for whatever reason, is difficult to grasp for a lot of people. So I thought I’d begin this blog series with a topic that isn’t even specific to Lectora. It’s just a concept that, once understood, opens up all sorts of new possibilities for things you can do with Lectora, like custom navigation and branching, simulations, swapping content based on user input, gamification… Pretty much anything you can dream up!

In trying to think of how I might describe what a variable is to people new to the concept, I did a web search for “variable definition.” Most of the resources I found use a lot of technical terms and get way into the weeds before they even tell you what it really is! And while all those details and terms may be important eventually, they are not needed to understand the basic concept.

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