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+Creating a string:\\
+{\ex \lstinline|    s = ``Hello World''|} -- Single quotes and triple
+quotes can also be used.  
+
+Accessing individual elements:\\
+{\ex \lstinline|   s[5]|} -- Elements can be accessed with their index
+
+Strings are immutable. 
diff --git a/getting_started_with_strings/script.rst b/getting_started_with_strings/script.rst
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+.. Objectives
+.. ----------
+
+.. At the end of this tutorial, you should know --
+
+..   1. How to define strings
+..   #. Different ways of defining a string
+..   #. How to concatenate strings 
+..   #. How to print a string repeatedly 
+..   #. Accessing individual elements of the string
+..   #. Immutability of strings
+
+.. Prerequisites
+.. -------------
+
+.. 1. getting started with ipython
+     
+.. Author              : Madhu
+   Internal Reviewer   : Punch
+   External Reviewer   :
+   Language Reviewer   : Bhanukiran
+   Checklist OK?       : <15-11-2010, Anand, OK> [2010-10-05]
+
+Script
+------
+
+{{{ Show the slide containing the title }}}
+
+Hello friends. Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Getting started with
+strings.
+
+{{{ Show the slide containing the outline }}}
+
+In this tutorial, we will look at what we really mean by strings, how
+Python supports the use of strings and some of the operations that can
+be performed on strings. 
+
+{{{ Shift to terminal and start ipython }}}
+
+To begin with let us start ipython, by typing::
+
+  ipython
+
+on the terminal
+
+So, what are strings? In Python anything within either single quotes
+or double quotes or triple single quotes or triple double quotes are
+strings. 
+
+{{{ Type in ipython the following and read them as you type }}}::
+
+  'This is a string'
+  "This is a string too'
+  '''This is a string as well'''
+  """This is also a string"""
+  'p'
+  ""
+
+Note that it really doesn't matter how many characters are present in
+the string. The last example is a null string or an empty string. 
+
+Having more than one control character to define strings is handy when
+one of the control characters itself is part of the string. For
+example::
+
+  "Python's string manipulation functions are very useful"
+
+By having multiple control characters, we avoid the need for
+escaping characters -- in this case the apostrophe. 
+
+The triple quoted strings let us define multi-line strings without
+using any escaping. Everything within the triple quotes is a single
+string no matter how many lines it extends::
+
+   """Having more than one control character to define
+   strings come as very handy when one of the control
+   characters itself is part of the string."""
+
+We can assign this string to any variable::
+
+  a = 'Hello, World!'
+
+Now 'a' is a string variable. String is a collection of characters. In
+addition string is an immutable collection. So all the operations that
+are applicable to any other immutable collection in Python works on
+string as well. So we can add two strings::
+
+  a = 'Hello'
+  b = 'World'
+  c = a + ', ' + b + '!'
+
+We can add string variables as well as the strings themselves all in
+the same statement. The addition operation performs the concatenation
+of two strings.
+
+Similarly we can multiply a string with an integer::
+
+  a = 'Hello'
+  a * 5
+
+gives another string in which the original string 'Hello' is repeated
+5 times.
+
+Following is an exercise that you must do. 
+
+%% %% Obtain the string ``%% -------------------- %%`` (20 hyphens)
+      without typing out all the twenty hyphens. 
+
+Please, pause the video here. Do the exercise and then continue. 
+
+::
+
+  s = "%% " + "-"*20 + " %%"
+
+Let's now look at accessing individual elements of strings. Since,
+strings are collections we can access individual items in the string
+using the subscripts::
+
+  a[0]
+
+gives us the first character in the string. The indexing starts from 0
+for the first character and goes up to n-1 for the last character. We
+can access the strings from the end using negative indices::
+
+  a[-1]
+
+gives us the last element of the string and 
+::
+
+    a[-2]
+
+gives us second element from the end of the string
+
+Following is an exercise that you must do. 
+
+%% %% Given a string, ``s = "Hello World"``, what is the output of::
+
+      s[-5] 
+      s[-10]
+      s[-15]
+
+Please, pause the video here. Do the exercise and then continue. 
+
+::
+
+  s[-5] 
+
+gives us 'W'
+::
+
+  s[-10] 
+
+gives us 'e' and 
+::
+
+  s[-15] 
+
+gives us an ``IndexError``, as should be expected, since the string
+given to us is only 11 characters long. 
+
+Let us attempt to change one of the characters in a string::
+
+  a = 'hello'
+  a[0] = 'H'
+
+As said earlier, strings are immutable. We cannot manipulate a
+string. Although there are some methods which let us manipulate
+strings, we will look at them in the advanced session on strings. In
+addition to the methods that let us manipulate the strings we have
+methods like split which lets us break the string on the specified
+separator, the join method which lets us combine the list of strings
+into a single string based on the specified separator.
+
+{{{ Show summary slide }}}
+
+This brings us to the end of another session. In this tutorial session
+we learnt
+
+  * How to define strings
+  * Different ways of defining a string
+  * String concatenation and repetition
+  * Accessing individual elements of the string
+  * Immutability of strings
+
+{{{ Show the "sponsored by FOSSEE" slide }}}
+
+This tutorial was created as a part of FOSSEE project, NME ICT, MHRD India
+
+Hope you have enjoyed and found it useful.
+Thank you!
+
diff --git a/getting_started_with_strings/slides.org b/getting_started_with_strings/slides.org
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+#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
+#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [presentation]
+#+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 1
+
+#+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \usetheme{Warsaw}\usecolortheme{default}\useoutertheme{infolines}\setbeamercovered{transparent}
+#+COLUMNS: %45ITEM %10BEAMER_env(Env) %10BEAMER_envargs(Env Args) %4BEAMER_col(Col) %8BEAMER_extra(Extra)
+#+PROPERTY: BEAMER_col_ALL 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 :ETC
+
+#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
+#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [presentation]
+
+#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{ae,aecompl}
+#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{mathpazo,courier,euler} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet}
+
+#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{listings}
+
+#+LaTeX_HEADER:\lstset{language=Python, basicstyle=\ttfamily\bfseries,
+#+LaTeX_HEADER:  commentstyle=\color{red}\itshape, stringstyle=\color{darkgreen},
+#+LaTeX_HEADER:  showstringspaces=false, keywordstyle=\color{blue}\bfseries}
+
+#+TITLE:    
+#+AUTHOR:    FOSSEE
+#+EMAIL:     
+#+DATE:    
+
+#+DESCRIPTION: 
+#+KEYWORDS: 
+#+LANGUAGE:  en
+#+OPTIONS:   H:3 num:nil toc:nil \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
+#+OPTIONS:   TeX:t LaTeX:nil skip:nil d:nil todo:nil pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
+
+* Outline
+*** Defining strings
+*** Concatenation
+*** Accessing individual elements
+*** Immutability of strings
+* Question 1
+  Obtain the string ~%% -------------------- %%~ (20 hyphens) without
+  typing out all the twenty hyphens.
+* Solution 1
+  #+begin_src python
+    s = "%% " + "-"*20 + " %%"
+  #+end_src
+* Question 2
+  Given a string, ~s~ which is ~Hello World~ , what is the output of::
+  #+begin_src python
+    s[-5] 
+    s[-10]
+    s[-15]
+  #+end_src
+* Solution 2
+  #+begin_src python
+    'W'
+    'e'
+    IndexError
+  #+end_src
+* Summary
+  In this tutorial we have learnt
+    + How to define strings
+    + Different ways of defining a string
+    + String concatenation and repetition
+    + Accessing individual elements of the string
+    + Immutability of strings
+  
+* Thank you!
+#+begin_latex
+  \begin{block}{}
+  \begin{center}
+  This spoken tutorial has been produced by the
+  \textcolor{blue}{FOSSEE} team, which is funded by the 
+  \end{center}
+  \begin{center}
+    \textcolor{blue}{National Mission on Education through \\
+      Information \& Communication Technology \\ 
+      MHRD, Govt. of India}.
+  \end{center}  
+  \end{block}
+#+end_latex
+
+
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+% Created 2010-11-10 Wed 10:46
+\documentclass[presentation]{beamer}
+\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+\usepackage{fixltx2e}
+\usepackage{graphicx}
+\usepackage{longtable}
+\usepackage{float}
+\usepackage{wrapfig}
+\usepackage{soul}
+\usepackage{textcomp}
+\usepackage{marvosym}
+\usepackage{wasysym}
+\usepackage{latexsym}
+\usepackage{amssymb}
+\usepackage{hyperref}
+\tolerance=1000
+\usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{ae,aecompl}
+\usepackage{mathpazo,courier,euler} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet}
+\usepackage{listings}
+\lstset{language=Python, basicstyle=\ttfamily\bfseries,
+commentstyle=\color{red}\itshape, stringstyle=\color{darkgreen},
+showstringspaces=false, keywordstyle=\color{blue}\bfseries}
+\providecommand{\alert}[1]{\textbf{#1}}
+
+\title{}
+\author{FOSSEE}
+\date{}
+
+\usetheme{Warsaw}\usecolortheme{default}\useoutertheme{infolines}\setbeamercovered{transparent}
+\begin{document}
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+\begin{frame}
+\frametitle{Outline}
+\label{sec-1}
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item Defining strings\\
+\label{sec-1_1}%
+\item Concatenation\\
+\label{sec-1_2}%
+\item Accessing individual elements\\
+\label{sec-1_3}%
+\item Immutability of strings\\
+\label{sec-1_4}%
+\end{itemize} % ends low level
+\end{frame}
+\begin{frame}
+\frametitle{Question 1}
+\label{sec-2}
+
+  Obtain the string \texttt{\%\% -------------------- \%\%} (20 hyphens) without
+  typing out all the twenty hyphens.
+\end{frame}
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+\frametitle{Solution 1}
+\label{sec-3}
+
+\lstset{language=Python}
+\begin{lstlisting}
+s = "%% " + "-"*20 + " %%"
+\end{lstlisting}
+\end{frame}
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+\frametitle{Question 2}
+\label{sec-4}
+
+  Given a string, \texttt{s} which is \texttt{Hello World} , what is the output of::
+\lstset{language=Python}
+\begin{lstlisting}
+s[-5] 
+s[-10]
+s[-15]
+\end{lstlisting}
+\end{frame}
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+\frametitle{Solution 2}
+\label{sec-5}
+
+\lstset{language=Python}
+\begin{lstlisting}
+'W'
+'e'
+IndexError
+\end{lstlisting}
+\end{frame}
+\begin{frame}
+\frametitle{Summary}
+\label{sec-6}
+
+  In this tutorial we have learnt
+\begin{itemize}
+\item How to define strings
+\item Different ways of defining a string
+\item String concatenation and repetition
+\item Accessing individual elements of the string
+\item Immutability of strings
+\end{itemize}
+
+  
+\end{frame}
+\begin{frame}
+\frametitle{Thank you!}
+\label{sec-7}
+
+  \begin{block}{}
+  \begin{center}
+  This spoken tutorial has been produced by the
+  \textcolor{blue}{FOSSEE} team, which is funded by the 
+  \end{center}
+  \begin{center}
+    \textcolor{blue}{National Mission on Education through \\
+      Information \& Communication Technology \\ 
+      MHRD, Govt. of India}.
+  \end{center}  
+  \end{block}
+\end{frame}
+
+\end{document}