Can someone tell me what Strong typing and weak typing means and which one is better?

Question

Can someone tell me what Strong typing and weak typing means and which one is better?

Answer 1

Strong/weak typing in a language is related to how easily you can do type conversions:

For example in Python:

str = 5 + 'a' 
# would throw an error since it does not want to cast one type to the other implicitly.

Where as in C language:

int a = 5;
a = 5 + 'c';
/* is fine, because C treats 'c' as an integer in this case */

Thus Python is more strongly typed than C (from this perspective).