Basic Data Types in Python
Darren Jones
18 Lessons
1h 27m
basics
python
In this step-by-step course, you’ll dig into the basic data types that are built into Python.
By the end of this course:
- You’ll learn about several basic numeric, string, and Boolean types that are built into Python.
- You’ll see what objects of these types look like and how you can represent them.
- You’ll get an overview of Python’s built-in functions, which are pre-written chunks of code that you can call to do useful things.
Basic Data Types in Python
18 Lessons 1h 27m
2. Integers 05:38
3. Floats 05:33
4. Complex Numbers 01:35
5. Strings 02:48
6. Escape Sequences 04:45
7. Raw Strings 01:28
8. Triple Quoted Strings 03:06
9. Booleans 03:55
11. Functions: Math 04:50
About Darren Jones
With 20 years as a teacher of music technology, Darren is keen to bring his skills to the Python table.
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Paul D Paradis on Aug. 5, 2020
This is gold! I have been teaching myself Python for a while now, and this is the best presentation of fundamental data types I have ever come across. I just joined real Python and decided to go through the basics as a refresher and to get comfortable with the site, and I am thoroughly impressed.