A String is simply a variable that holds human-readable text. The reason why they're called strings instead of text has more to do with history than practicality. From a computer's perspective, a String is actually a list of integers. Each integer represents a character.
For example, the number U+0041 (Unicode notation, 65 in decimal notation) is the letter A. These numbers are stringed together to create text.
In this recipe, we will continue with the toy console application in order to define and work with strings.