Ch.6: Text & Bytes | Intro to Python & Programming | Coding for Managers Series
Channel: Alexander Hess - Pythonista
Date: 22/03/2020

This is a presentation of Chapter 6 of the "Introduction to Python & Programming" book that accompanies the coding course in the Bachelor program at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany in the spring semester 2020.

In this video, I talk about:
- How text data is modeled as a string of characters (i.e., the str type)
- How text files can be opened and read in
- What happens in memory when a file is opened
- How individual characters in a str object can be obtained by indexing
- How slicing is a generalization of indexing and returns substrings
- What the str type's immutability implies for the string methods
- What string methods exist to conveniently work with text data
- What string interpolation is and how str objects can be used as "templates"
- How all characters in a string are Unicode and have a unique code point
- How encodings (e.g., ASCII or Unicode) map each character to an integer
- What bytes are and how they are used to encode the code points of a string

PYTHON BOOK
The lecture is based on the free book "Introduction to Python & Programming".
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PYTHON LECTURES
Find all the video recordings of the book in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-2JV1G3J10lQ2xokyQowcRJI5jjNfW7f

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WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany 

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