Strings are useful when you want to show text on the screen that might change in response to user input. They’re also useful for storing data: for instance names in a database.

For example, a user may enter a text string in all capital letters and you need to normalize the data by translating it to lower case. You can translate user input to lowercase using Python's ...

[Stealth] put together a post explaining how he writes drivers for input peripherals. He’s using Python which makes the process fairly painless (we’ll get to that in a minute) but the value of ...

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.