In this lesson, our instructor Tom Quayle goes through an
introduction on strings. He starts by discussing literal
strings, string concatenation, string length and string
comparison. He then moves on to discuss taking a subset of a
string and searching wi A literal string is a sequence of
characters within double quotes Use the + or += operator to
concatenate (join the contents of) two strings The length method
tells you the number of characters in a string Use the equals or
compareTo methods (not ==) to compare two strings The substring
and indexOf methods are useful for string manipulation Lecture
Slides are screen-captured images of important points in the
lecture. Students can download and print out these lecture slide
images to do practice problems as well as take notes while
watching the lecture.