AI engineering glossary · Computing foundations
What is text file?
Text file (also called Plain text): A file whose bytes represent characters under a text encoding, so a person can read it in a simple editor. Source code, CSV and JSON files are text files.
Text file: an example
A Python script saved as train.py is a text file you can open in any editor.
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Where you learn it
Text file is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.