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All right, we're almost kind of flying through this.

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I know we're going slow here, but trust me, once you get these data types, things become a lot easier.

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So we're just climbing that mountain so that we can start looking at a higher level at the language

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of python.

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To keep going, let's talk about this data type SDR, which stands for strings.

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A string is simply, well, a piece of text, for example, a string can be written with quotation marks

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and I can say hi, hello there.

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And that is a strength, you see that the color changed here in my ED.

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I can also make strings with double quotes.

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So once again, this is also a valid string and I can put anything I want in here.

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I can do numbers if I wanted to.

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Exclamation marks.

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It's just a piece of text.

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You can think of it as a sentence for now.

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And if I do the type function here, remember, these records denote that we want to perform some sort

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of action, which is we're using the type action that Python gives us.

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And if I click run, you see that?

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Well, and remember, we have to print it out as well.

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So let's do print so that we can see the display.

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And I click, run, you see that it's a star.

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It's a type of string.

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Now we can use this in important ways.

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For example, imagine you're creating a login form and we want to collect somebodies username and password.

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Well, we can have a username variable that we assign, let's say, some sort of user name, let's call

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it super coder.

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And then password can be super secret, and now we have these variables, usernames and passwords that

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we can use throughout our program, such as to check if a password exists.

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And remember, I can use single quotes or double quotes.

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But there's a third way that we can write strings in Python, and this well is used for long strings,

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so let's just create a variable long string.

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And what we can do here is three single quotes in a row like this.

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And then here I can just say, wow, maybe so a pair of eyes of somebody that's really impressed.

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And let's go with the mouth.

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That actually kind of looks like hair, all right, and then I finish it off with three single quotes

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again.

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So now if I print.

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The long string.

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And I click Ron.

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Look at that, my little weird emoji face is printed, so the three single quotes is for long strings

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that I can keep going on multiple lines.

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For example, I can't do this with the single quote.

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You see that the orange color is now gone because Python is going to say this is a new line and this

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is another line and it's going to give me an error because, well, a kret with a quote doesn't mean

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anything.

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But if we use three single quotes, you can see that we can do multiline strings.

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And this is really useful if you want to have maybe long sentences and paragraphs now with a string,

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we do we can do some cool things that we saw in the numbers videos.

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What if I had something like this, let's say I wanted to grab the first name of a user.

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Just give my own name here and then last name.

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And again, my super hard to pronounce last name.

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Could we do something like this where we have a full name equals to first name?

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And then if we print here the full name.

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Should this work?

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Well, let's have a look, let me remove this part of here just so we have nice and clean looking code

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and if I click, run.

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There you go.

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My name is printed, but you see that there's no spaces here because we're going to use the addition

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sign to attach Andre to Nagoya.

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But you can see that there's no spaces here.

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So I can add a space if I wanted to, or I can just simply create another string inside of here.

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Just like this, and then add a spacing between.

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So we're just using the plus sign, which we've seen in the numbers videos, but instead to add strings

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together.

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And now if I click run.

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You see that I got the space because I'm adding a space in here in between the names.

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Very, very cool.

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But there's a few more neat things that we can do with strings, so let's take a break and I'll see

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you in the next video.