October 2009
Beginner
432 pages
8h 14m
English
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS HOUR:
Using strings to store text
Displaying strings in a program
Including special characters in a string
Pasting two strings together
Including variables in a string
Comparing two strings
Determining the length of a string
In the film The Piano, Holly Hunter portrays Ada, a young Scottish woman who is mute and only can express herself by playing her piano.
Like Ada, your computer programs are capable of quietly doing their work and never stopping for a chat—or piano recital—with humans. But if The Piano teaches us anything, it’s that communication ranks up there with food, water, and shelter as essential needs. (It also teaches us that the actor Harvey ...
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