AQA A’Level SLR01 Introduction to programming Part 5 – String handling

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AQA Specification Reference
AS Level 3.1.1.7
A Level 4.1.1.7

This video is one in a series of six which provides you with an introduction to some fundamental concepts of programming. In this video we take a look at: String handling.

Key question:

- What is string handling in programming, and what are some of the most common string handling operations?

00:00 Programming basics- Part 5
00:05 Intro
00:10 String manipulation
00:20 Example 1: An online form
01:09 Example 2: Text parsing
01:38 Example 3: Train tickets
01:50 String manipulation commands
02:21 Length
02:59 Position
03:22 Substring
04:04 Concatenation
04:22 Character to character code and character code to character conversions
05:08 String conversion operations
06:45 String manipulation commands in Python
18:06 Key question
18:18 Outro

Last updated: 10.04.25

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