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TechWays AI Hackathon

Preparing you for: Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior

Here’s an opportunity to bring your AI dreams to life. Join TechWays AI Hackathon during the April holidays as a team of 1-6. Learners must be 13-18yrs to join. You’ll get:

Live briefing session – Sat 01 April @10am
3 feedback webinars on your creations – Sat 22 & 29 April and Sat 6 May, all @10am-12pm
Access to our AI Hackathon course which covers AI, deep learning, AI ethics, cyber security and tips on developing ideas and inspiring presentations.

All these and much more to prepare you for the Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior, where you’ll be representing South Africa in this global competition. And stand to win some amazing prizes!

Spaces are limited, we are accepting 30 teams only.

JOIN NOW! For only R500

Join this years TechWays AI Hackathon during the April holidays as a team of 1-6 people and compete in the global Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior Competition!

We have prepared a course with live webinars that will give you step-by-step support and feedback in completing your Imagine Cup Jnr competition. Cost is R500/person.

You must be 13-18 years of age to join.

TechWays AI Hackathon

Preparing you for: Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior

Interested in solving the world’s problems using
AI?

Can you find ways to use
Artificial Intelligence in making
the world a better place?

You will gain access to our live support webinars which will guide you step-by-step to the big day of submitting your solution to Microsoft on May 10:

Live briefing session – Sat 01 April @10am
3 feedback webinars – Sat 22 & 29 April and Sat 6 May, all @10am-12pm
Access to our AI Hackathon course which covers AI, deep learning, AI ethics, cyber security and tips on developing ideas and inspiring presentations.

You must be 13-18 years of age to join. You can join as a team of 1-6 teens. Cost is R500/person. Spaces are limited, we are accepting only 30 teams.

Join us for this amazing journey and help to change your world using AI!

And stand the chance to win some awesome prizes 🙂

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String Built-in Functions/Methods

There are a lot of strings functions/methods in Python. Find full list in course manual. Here’s are some that you find useful in this course:

Functions

len(varName) – Returns the length of a list, string
join(varName) – Converts the elements of an iterable into a string.

Methods

varName.capitalize() – Converts the first character to upper case.
varName.center(length) – Returns a centered string
varName.count(“?”) – Returns the number of times a specified value (?) occurs in a string (varName).
varName.endswith(“?”) – Returns true if the string ends with the specified value.
varName.find(“?”) – Searches the string for a specified value and returns the position of where it was found.
varName.format(placeholder = value) – Formats specified values in a string.
varName.index(“?”) – Searches the string for a specified value and returns the position of where it was found.
varName.isalnum() – Returns True if all characters in the string are alphanumeric.
varName.isalpha() – Returns True if all characters in the string are in the alphabet.
varName.isascii() – Returns True if all characters in the string are ascii characters.
varName.isdecimal() – Returns True if all characters in the string are decimals.
varName.isdigit() – Returns True if all characters in the string are digits.
varName.isidentifier() – Returns True if the string is an identifier.
varName.islower() – Returns True if all characters in the string are lower case.
varName.isupper() – Returns True if all characters in the string are upper case.
varName.isnumeric() – Returns True if all characters in the string are numeric.
varName.isprintable() – Returns True if all characters in the string are printable.
varName.isspace() – Returns True if all characters in the string are whitespaces.
varName.istitle() – Returns True if the string follows the rules of a title.
varName.ljust(value) – Returns a left justified version of the string.
varName.rjust() Returns a right justified version of the string.
varName.lower() – Converts a string into lower case.
varName.upper() – Converts a string into upper case.
varName.strip() – Returns a trimmed version of the string.
varName.lstrip() – Returns a left trim version of the string.
varName.rstrip() Returns a right trim version of the string.
varName.partition() – Returns a tuple where the string is parted into three parts.
varName.replace(“old”, “new”) – Returns a string where a specified value is replaced with a specified value.
varName.rfind() – Searches the string for a specified value and returns the last position of where it was found.
varName.rindex() – Searches the string for a specified value and returns the last position of where it was found.
varName.rpartition() – Returns a tuple where the string is parted into three parts.
varName.rsplit() – Splits the string at the specified separator, and returns a list.
varName.split() – Splits the string at the specified separator, and returns a list.
varName.splitlines() – Splits the string at line breaks and returns a list.
varName.startswith() – Returns true if the string starts with the specified value.
varName.swapcase() – Swaps cases, lower case becomes upper case and vice versa.