PYTHON
Week 1: Planning the Computer Program: Concept of problem solving, Problem
definition, Program design, Debugging, Types of errors in programming,
Documentation.
Week 2: Techniques of Problem Solving: Flowcharting, decision table, algorithms,
Structured programming concepts, Programming methodologies viz. top-down and
bottom-up programming.
Week 3: Introduction to Python: Structure of a Python Program, Elements of
Python, Python Interpreter, Using Python as calculator, Python shell, Indentation.
Atoms, Identifiers and keywords, Literals, Strings and Operators.
Week 4: Conditional Statements and Looping: Branching, Looping, Conditional
Statement, Exit function, Difference between break, continue and pass.
Week 5: String Manipulation: Understanding string, Accessing Strings, Basic
Operations, String slices, Function and Methods.
Week 6: List: Introduction to list, Accessing list, list operations, Working with
lists, Function and Methods.
Week 7: Tuples: Introduction to tuple, Accessing tuples, Operations, Working,
Functions and Methods.
Week 8: Dictionary: Introduction to dictionaries, Accessing values in dictionaries,
Working with dictionaries, Properties, Functions.
Week 9: Python Functions: Defining a function, Calling a function, Types of
functions, Function Arguments, Anonymous functions, Global and local variables,
Organizing python codes using functions.
Week 10: Python Modules: Organizing python projects into modules, Importing
own module as well as external modules, Understanding Packages, modules and
external packages.
Week 11: Input-Output: Printing on screen , Reading data from keyboard ,
Opening and closing file , Reading and writing files , Functions.
Week 12: Exception Handling: Introduction to Exception, Exception Handling,
Except clause, Try ? finally clause, User Defined Exceptions.
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Jadavpur syllabus
