In this lesson on Python String Basics, Chelsea explains how Python stores and works with text using strings. You will learn how to create strings with quotes, concatenate (join) strings using the plus sign, and add spaces correctly when combining first and last names. Next, the video introduces indexing to pick a single character (remember: Python starts counting from zero) and slicing to take a substring using the start-colon-stop rule, where the start is included and the stop is not included. Finally, Chelsea covers a common beginner mistake—trying to join text with numbers—and shows how to fix it by converting integers to strings using str(). The lesson includes practice questions with solutions, and a GitHub link to download the slides and worksheet.
Find slides, worksheets, and solutions on my GitHub:
https://github.com/AlgorithmWithChels...