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CT–173 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

LECTURE 10

PROGRAMMING & DEVELOPMENT

HUMA TABASSUM
LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

• A programming language is a notational system intended


primarily to facilitate human-machine interaction.

• The notational system is understood both by human and


machine.
LEVELS/GENERATIONS OF PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES
• 1st Generation Programming language (1GL)
• Machine Language: 0s or 1s
• 2nd Generation Programming language (2GL)
• Assembly Language : Mnemonics
• 3rd Generation Programming language (3GL)
• High-Level Languages ; (Procedure oriented or Object Oriented)
• 4th Generation Programming language (4GL)
• Very-High-Level Languages
• 5th Generation Programming Language (5GL)
• Natural Languages
PYTHON
• Python is very popular when it comes to programming.

• Python is a high-level, interpreted, and interactive scripting language.

• Python is designed to be highly readable.

• It has fewer syntactical constructions than other programming


languages.

Huma TabassumDept. of CS&IT 4


Brief History of Python
• Invented in the Netherlands, early 90s by Guido van Rossum.

• Named after Monty Python (a British comedy troupe).

• Open sourced from the beginning.

• Considered a scripting language, but is much more.

• Used by Google from the beginning.


IDLE Development Environment

• IDLE is an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python, typically


used on Windows.
• Multi-window text editor with syntax highlighting, auto-completion,
smart indent and other.
• Python shell with syntax highlighting.
A Code Sample (in IDLE)
x = 34 - 23 # A comment.
y = “Hello” # Another one.
z = 3.45
if z == 3.45 or y == “Hello”:
x = x + 1
y = y + “ World” # String concat.
print x
print y
Enough to Understand the Code
• Indentation matters to code meaning
• Block structure indicated by indentation
• First assignment to a variable creates it
• Variable types don’t need to be declared.
• Python figures out the variable types on its own.
• Assignment is = and comparison is ==
• For numbers, + - * / % are as expected
• Special use of + for string concatenation and % for string formatting (as in C’s printf)
• Logical operators are words (and, or, not) not symbols
• The basic printing command is print
Basic Datatypes
• Integers (default for numbers)
z = 5 / 2 # Answer 2, integer division
• Floats
x = 3.456
• Strings
• Can use “” or ‘’ to specify with “abc” == ‘abc’
• Unmatched can occur within the string: “matt’s”
• Use triple double-quotes for multi-line strings or
strings than contain both ‘ and “ inside of them:
“““a‘b“c”””
Whitespace
• Whitespace is meaningful in Python: especially indentation and
placement of newlines.

• Use a newline to end a line of code.

• Use consistent indentation.


• First line with less indentation is outside of the block.
• First line with more indentation starts a nested block.

• Colons start of a new block in many constructs, e.g. function


definitions, then clauses.
Comments
• Start comments with #, rest of line is ignored.

#This is a comment
print("Hello, World!")

print("Hello World!") #This is a comment


Assignment
• Binding a variable in Python means setting a name to hold a reference
to some object
• Assignment creates references, not copies
• Names in Python do not have an intrinsic type.
• Python determines the type of the reference automatically based on what
data is assigned to it
• You create a name the first time it appears on the left side of an
assignment expression:
x = 3
Naming Rules
• Names are case sensitive and cannot start with a number. They can
contain letters, numbers, and underscores.
bob Bob _bob _2_bob_ bob_2 BoB

• There are some reserved words:


and, assert, break, class, continue, def, del, elif,
else, except, exec, finally, for, from, global, if,
import, in, is, lambda, not, or, pass, raise, return,
try, while
Naming conventions
The Python community has these recommended naming conventions.

• joined_lower for functions, methods and, attributes


• joined_lower or ALL_CAPS for constants
• StudlyCaps for classes
• camelCase only to conform to pre-existing conventions
• Attributes: interface, _internal, __private
Assignment
• You can assign to multiple names at the same time
>>> x, y = 2, 3
>>> x
2
>>> y
3
This makes it easy to swap values
>>> x, y = y, x
• Assignments can be chained
>>> a = b = x = 2
Huma TabassumDept. of CS&IT 16

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