Ch.7: Sequential Data | Intro to Python & Programming | Coding for Managers Series
Channel: Alexander Hess - Pythonista
Date: 2020-03-22

UPDATE: The chapter number was changed from 7.1 to 7

This is a presentation of Chapter 7 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 objects of different data types, for example, string and a list objects, behave the same in various situations
- How abstract concepts classifying these behaviors are more important than the actual data type an object has
- How any object that "contains" references to other objects is a container type
- How any object that contains a finite number of references to other objects is a sized type
- How any object that may be looped over is an iterable type
- How any object that may be looped over in a predictable order is a reversible type
- How a sequence is really a meta-concept that unifies the aforementioned independent concepts into one
- Why the list data type is an example of a sequence type
- What the list type's mutability implies when reasoning about code
- What list methods exists to change a list object in place
- That passing a list object as the argument to a function call may have unintended side effects
- How the tuple type is really just an immutable version of the list type
- How packing and unpacking with the * operator makes code conciser

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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