Dev 101: text versus bytes

Tom Deneire
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
7 min readMar 6, 2021

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In the Dev 101 series I cover some basic concepts of computer programming for a broad audience. I guess it’s the explanation I was looking for myself, when I first started out as a programmer…

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TL;DR: There is no such thing as text, only collections of bytes which can be displayed as characters based on an encoding.

Ones and zeros

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