Data Types and Data Structures

00:00 And our last main topic before we move on to the project in the final weeks

00:06 is data structures. Now, as we did with functions, we’re going to start with things you already know. So you see that some of the early lessons today and tomorrow will be topics that you know, but I’d like you to think of even when you’re going through the topics that you feel like you know, feel free to obviously adjust your pace and go quickly through them.

00:28 I’d like you to think of, for example, when we talk about lists and tuples, I’d like you to think of them from the perspective of what we’ve covered already.

00:37 So when you look at the characteristics of lists and tuples and other data structures we’ll come across, think of the dunder methods that define them. Think of the mutability and immutability.

00:50 Think of them as classes and therefore you can view them from the perspective of object-oriented programming.

00:57 And as you go through, try to look beyond the superficial knowledge of what the list is and what it does and what the tuple is, what it does, et cetera. And we’ll try to understand them a bit more deeply.

01:09 Of course, these are conversations we’ll have in our live sessions and in the forum as we go through.

01:15 As then we go through, through the week, we’ll start looking at other less common and, and different data structures. And by the end of the week, we’ll have an array of data structures that you can pick from whenever you have a problem you’re trying to solve and need to choose what is the ideal data structure for my problem.