| Introduction to the Python: Interpreted vs. compiled languages. Bytecodes. The importance of whitespace. Variables and the lack of explicit data types and how Python uses the concepts of duck, strong and static typing, to figure out data types in runtime. The assignment operator, the binding of names to objects, and aliasing. Keywords and their significance. |
10 Hrs |
| Strings: Definition, declaration, and immutability, string constants, declaration, and the equivalence of single and double quotes. Multi-line strings. Raw strings. String formatting using the format function and the % operator. Built-in functions: count, find, replace, upper, lower, strip, etc. |
10 Hrs |
| Lists: Definition, Declaration and mutability. Nested lists. Indexing and slicing: same as strings. List comprehensions. The split and join methods. Built-in list functions-append, extend, count, find, index, etc. |
10 Hrs |
| Tuples: Definition, declaration and immutability. Packing and unpacking lists and tuples. The + and * operators on strings, lists and tuples. Indexing and slicing, lists and tuples. |
10 Hrs |
| Conditionals: If, elif and else statements. Nested conditionals. |
10 Hrs |
| Looping Constructs: while and for loops. Flow control using break, continue, and pass, Nested Loops |
10 Hrs |
| Generators: range, sorted, reversed, zip, and enumerate. |
10 Hrs |
| Functions: User defined functions, def: (return statement, default values for arguments, keyword arguments), lambda function. |
10 Hrs |
| File handling: open and close methods, read and write modes, The csv module for efficient read/write of structured data. |
10 Hrs |
| Problem Solving |
10 Hrs |