045. OCR A Level (H046-H446) SLR8 – 1.2 Introduction to programming part 6 file handling

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OCR Specification Reference
AS Level 1.2.3a
A Level 1.2.3a

In this final video in a series of Six we take a look at the following basic programming concept: File handling

Key question:

- How do you read from and write to a simple text file?

00:00 Introduction to programming - Part 6: File handling
00:10 Intro
00:15 File handling overview
00:29 Writing data to a file
00:57 Reading/searching data from a file
01:48 Reading data from text files
07:18 Writing data to text files
09:12 Summary of Python file handling commands
09:21 File handling example using Visual Basic
09:48 OCR exam pseudocode
10:53 Key question
11:03 Language guide for use in external assessments
11:11 A note about pseudocode in your exams
12:26 Outro

Last updated: 26.03.26

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