Chapter 9 Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter students will be able to:

• Explain what is a collection data type and why a string is an example
• Explain what is string concatenation and how to perform it in Python
• Explain what is string repetition and how to perform it in Python
• Explain how to index into a string
• Describe some of the methods we can perform on strings
• Explain how the len function works
• Explain how the slice operator works
• Explain what are ordinal values in strings
• Explain the meaning of lexographical order
• Explain what it means for strings to be immutable
• Traverse a string using a for/while loop