Python for Absolute Beginners Transcripts
Chapter: Cleaner code with common data structures
Lecture: Introducing data structures
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It's time to talk about some
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of Python's built-in data structures.
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Now, this is going to be a really fun chapter
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because what it's going to allow us to do
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is to take code that was kind of ugly and hard to write
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and tedious and reduce it down to much simpler ways
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of working with the same type of data.
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Now, data structures are really important.
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This includes dictionaries, lists, sets
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and other types of data structures
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that you might've heard of.
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Freeze, for example, there are many, many of them.
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There are a few core ones in Python
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that we're going to touch on in this chapter.
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We're going to take and improve our rock, paper, scissor game
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and you're going to learn all about them.
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Data structures are fun because these are some
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of the ideas and techniques that really separate beginners
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from professional or experienced developers.
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Once you know how to use these
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and once you know they exist
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they can dramatically simplify your code
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make it faster, make it less error prone
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all of those things, all at the same time.
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So I hope you're excited to dive into it.
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You're going to see some very cool stuff develop
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within our game because of them.
