🔣 Keyboard Symbols

➡️ Whenever are talking about indentation in code, we are referring to the offset that is created using either the Tab key (4 spaces) or to a consistent sequence of spaces created using the spacebar (usually 2 or 4 spaces).

⌨️ Top Row Keys

From left to right:

Symbol	Common Name in CS	Other Names
~	Tilde
`	Backtick	Back quote
!	Exclamation mark	Exclamation point
@	At sign	At, at symbol
#	Hashtag	Number sign, pound sign, or octothorpe
$	Dollar
%	Percent
^	Caret
&	Ampersand	“And” symbol
*	Asterisk	Star
(	Open parenthesis	Left parenthesis
)	Close parenthesis	Right parenthesis
( )	Parentheses	Round brackets
_	Underscore
–	Minus	Hyphen, dash, minus sign
+	Plus	Plus sign
=	Assignment operator	Equal, assignment

⌨️ Right Side of the Keyboard

From top to bottom:

Symbol	Common Name in CS	Other Names
{	Open Brace	Open Curly Bracket
}	Close Brace	Close Curly Bracket
{ }	Curly Brackets	Braces
[	Open Square Bracket
]	Close Square Bracket
[ ]	Square Brackets	Brackets
|	Bar	Vertical pipe
\	Back Slash	Backward slash
:	Colon
;	Semicolon
"	Double quotes	Quotation mark
""	Double Quotation Marks
'	Single quote	Apostrophe, prime
''	Single Quotation Marks
,	Comma
<	Less Than	Left angle bracket
>	Greater Than	Right angle bracket
.	Period	Decimal, dot, full stop
/	Slash (Forward Slash)	Forward slash, fraction slash
?	Question Mark

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Acknowledgement

Content on this page is adapted from Yekaterina Kharitonova with reference to 1 and 2.