Programming for Lovers in Python: Strings
00:00 Introductory remarks
07:54 Let's code! Strings and concatenation
21:29 Reverse complementing a string
30:12 The complement() subroutine
42:30 Reversing a string
55:38 Efficiency note
59:42 Why modularity is good
1:04:50 Substrings and sublists
1:13:34 Counting pattern matches in a string
1:23:39 Python is weird
1:32:54 Solving a more general problem, and happy coding!
This video is part of Programming for Lovers in Python and covers an introduction to strings and substrings.
The material accompanies Chapter 1 of Programming for Lovers on "Hunting for Hidden Messages in Bacterial Genomes". It follows the code alongs shown below:
[Strings] https://programmingforlovers.com/chap...
[Substrings] https://programmingforlovers.com/chap...
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