Computer Programming Python

CS25C02

 Computer Programming: Python

Course Objectives:

● To equip engineering students with the foundational knowledge and practical skills in Python programming to analyse and solve computational problems effectively.

● To foster problem-solving, critical thinking, and modular programming skills essential for engineering domains.

Introduction to Python: Problem Solving, Problem Analysis Chart, Developing an Algorithm, Flowchart and Pseudocode, Interactive and Script Mode, Indentation, Comments, Error messages, Variables, Reserved Words, Data Types, Arithmetic operators and expressions, Built-in Functions, Importing from Packages.

Practical: Problem Analysis Chart, Flowchart and Pseudocode Practices. (Minimum three)

Control Structures: if, if-else, nested if, multi-way if-elif statements, while loop, for loop, nested loops, pass statements.

Practical: Usage of conditional logics in programs. (Minimum three)

Functions: Hiding redundancy, complexity; Parameters, arguments and return values; formal vs actual arguments, named arguments, Recursive & Lambda Functions.

Practical: Usage of functions in programs. (Minimum three)

Strings & Collections: String Comparison, Formatting, Slicing, Splitting, Stripping, Lists, tuples, and dictionaries, basic list operators, searching and sorting lists; dictionary literals, adding and removing keys, accessing and replacing values.

Practical: String manipulations and operations on lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries. (Minimum three)

File Operations: Create, Open, Read, Write, Append and Close files. Manipulating directories, OS and Sys modules, reading/writing text and numbers, from/to a file; creating and reading a formatted file (csv, tab-separated, etc.).

Practical: Opening, closing, reading and writing in formatted file format and sort data. (Minimum three)

Packages: Built-in modules, User-Defined modules, Numpy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit- learn.

Practical: Usage of modules and packages to solve problems. (Minimum three), Project (Minimum Two)

Weightage: Continuous Assessment: 50%, End Semester Examinations: 50%

Assessment Methodology: Quiz (5%), Project (15%), Assignment Programs (25%), Practical (25%), Internal Examinations (30%)

References:

1. Matthes, E. (2019). Python crash course: A hands-on, project-based introduction to programming (2nd ed.). No Starch Press.

2. Brown, M. C. (2018). Python: The complete reference (4th ed.). McGraw Hill Publishers.

3. Guttag, J. V. (2016). Introduction to computation and programming using Python: With applications to understanding data (2nd ed.). MIT Press.

4. McKinney, W. (2017). Python for data analysis: Data wrangling with pandas, NumPy, and IPython. Shroff/O'Reilly.

E-Resources:

1. Official Python Documentation – https://docs.python.org/3/

2. Python Tutorials – https://www.w3schools.com/python/

3. NumPy – https://numpy.org/doc/

4. SciPy – https://scipy.org/

5. Google’s Python class – https://developers.google.com/edu/python/