Foundational Level Course
Programming in Python
This will be the first formal programming course that students will see in this programme. The goal of this course is to introduce Python programming, which is used throughout the programme, with a basic problem solving and algorithmic flavour.
Course ID: BSCS1002
Course Credits: 4
Course Type: Foundational
Pre-requisites: BSCS1001 - Computational Thinking
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Course structure & Assessments
12 weeks of coursework, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam. For details of standard course structure and assessments, visit Academics page.
| WEEK 1 | Introduction to algorithms |
| WEEK 2 | Conditionals |
| WEEK 3 | Conditionals (Continued) |
| WEEK 4 | Iterations and Ranges |
| WEEK 5 | Iterations and Ranges (Continued) |
| WEEK 6 | Basic Collections in Python |
| WEEK 7 | Basic Collections in Python (Continued) |
| WEEK 8 | Basic Collections in Python (Continued) |
| WEEK 9 | File Operations |
| WEEK 10 | File Operations (Continued) |
| WEEK 11 | Module system in python |
| WEEK 12 | Basic Pandas and Numpy processing of data |
Prescribed Books
The following are the suggested books for the course:
Title: Python for Everybody. Author: Charles R. Severance. Publisher: Shroff Publishers. ISBN: 9789352136278
(The PDF of this book is currently available freely at http://do1.dr-chuck.com/pythonlearn/EN_us/pythonlearn.pdf)
About the Instructors
Sudarshan Iyengar has a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science and is currently working as an Associate Professor and Head of CSE at IIT Ropar.