Explores the evolution of text encoding through Unicode standards and XML, highlighting the challenges and advancements in multilingual word processing and text recognition technologies.
Explores semi-structured data, embedding schema information to explain data values and relationships, discussing XML, schema-less data benefits, and serialization.
Explores knowledge representation, information extraction, and the Semantic Web vision, emphasizing standardization, mapping, and ontologies in structuring data.
Covers how classes and objects are organized in packages, imports, Scala's class hierarchy, traits, top types, the Nothing type, exceptions, and includes an exercise on type determination.
