Increment operators in programming

Question

I’ve never been able to understand the difference between operators like x++ vs ++x. Please help explain these in a way my small brain can understand?

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Answer 1

x = 5
print(x) // 5
print(x++) // 5
print(x) // 6
print(++x) // 7
print(x) // 7

Both `x++` and `++x` increment x by 1, but `x++` evaluates to the old value of x, while `++x` evaluates to the new value of x.