What are varibles

Question

Please can someone explain what a varible is and what it does

Answer 1

It is a letter or combination of letters which can store information.

ex:

YEAR=2016;
print(year);

Output will be : 2016

Answer 2

another way to say basically the same thing tobias said:
think of a variable as named box in which you can put something. for example:
a = 5
print(a)

in the first line you are opening box named a and putting 5 in it. in the second line you send a as a parameter to function print which means that the box named a is to be opened and it's contents printed to the screen.