I actually think that this rule/convention of having the value on the right and location on the left is a little arbitrary and potentially confusing. To someone that's learning to program, you're putting something that comes after (the assignment) before something that comes before (computation of the value to assign) can be counterintuitive.
Once you get used to it you stop thinking about it, but it's important to realize that this concept isn't as intuitive as it may appear.
Oh, and you didn't ever use the store arrow key (STO->) on your TI-83 to store a value? With this operation the variable goes on the right of the expression, not the left.
Once you get used to it you stop thinking about it, but it's important to realize that this concept isn't as intuitive as it may appear.
Oh, and you didn't ever use the store arrow key (STO->) on your TI-83 to store a value? With this operation the variable goes on the right of the expression, not the left.