68. OCR GCSE (J277) 2.2 The use of basic file handling
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OCR J277 Specification Reference - Section 2.2
This video explains the use of simple serial text file handling in Python. It is assumed that students already have some experience of programming, and the purpose of this video is to outline the key stages of using files so that students are able to answer related questions in exams. This includes opening, reading, writing and closing a data file.
Don't forget, whenever the blue note icon appears in the corner of the screen, that is your cue to take notes about the content being shown on the current slide.
00:00 The use of basic file handling
00:07 Intro
00:12 Reading data from text files
05:42 Writing data to text files
07:36 Recap
08:22 OCR exam reference language
09:46 Outro
Last updated: 16.03.26
