As they are related to the Operating system that we work on, it is important to know some of them and how we can influence them. Variables play an important role in computer programming because they enable programmers to write flexible programs. The value thus stored can be displayed, deleted, edited and re-saved. It is usually referred to with its Symbolic name which is given to it while creation. In computer science, a variable is a location for storing a value which can be a filename, text, number or any other data. The Computing environment is the Platform(Platform = Operating System+ Processor) where a user can run programs.