Welcome to an intro level explanation of bitwise operations in Python!

Bitwise operations might seem a little esoteric and tricky at first, but you’ll get the hang of them pretty quickly.

Bitwise operations are operations that directly manipulate bits. In all computers, numbers are represented with bits, a series of zeros and ones. In fact, pretty much everything in a computer is represented by bits. This course will introduce you to the basic bitwise operations and then show you what you can do with them.

Bitwise operators often tend to puzzle and mystify new programmers, so don’t worry if you are a little bit confused at first. To be honest, you aren’t really going to see bitwise operators in everyday programming. However, they do pop up from time to time, and when they do, you should have a general idea of what is going on.