CSEN1021 - PROGRAMMING WITH PYTHON

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Course Objectives:
 To elucidate problem solving through python programming language
 To introduce function-oriented programming paradigm through python
 To train in development of solutions using modular concepts
 To teach practical Python solution patterns

Module I: Introduction to Python 12 H

Python – Numbers, Strings, Variables, operators, expressions, statements, String operations,
Math function calls, Input/output statements, Conditional If, while and for loops.
Exercises:
 Accept input from user and store it in variable and print the value.
 Use of print statements and use of (.format )for printing different data types.
 Take 2 numbers as user input and add, multiply, divide, subtract, remainder and print
the output (Same operations on floating point input as well)
 Conversion of one unit to another (such as hours to minutes, miles to km and etc)
 Usage of mathematical functions in python like math.ceil, floor, fabs, fmod, trunc,
pow, sqrt etc.
 Building a mathematical calculator that can perform operations according to user input.
Use decision making statement.
 Accepting 5 different subject marks from user and displaying the grade of the student.
 Printing all even numbers, odd numbers, count of even numbers, count of odd numbers
within a given range.
o Compute the factorial of a given number. b) Compute GCD of two given
numbers. c) Generate Fibonacci series up to N numbers.
 Check whether the given input is a) palindrome b) strong c) perfect
 Compute compound interest using loop for a certain principal and interest amount

Learning Outcomes:
After completion of this unit the student will be able to
 solve simple problems using control structures, input and output statements. (L3)
 develop user defined functions (recursive and non-recursive). (L3)

Module II: Functions 15 H

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User defined Functions, parameters to functions, recursive functions. Lists, Tuples,
Dictionaries, Strings.
Exercises:
 Create a function which accepts two inputs from the user and compute nCr
 Recursive function to compute GCD of 2 numbers
 Recursive function to find product of two numbers
 Recursive function to generate Fibonacci series
 Program to print a specified list after removing the 0th, 4th and 5th elements.
Sample List : ['Red', 'Green', 'White', 'Black', 'Pink', 'Yellow']
Expected Output : ['Green', 'White', 'Black']
 Program to get the difference between the two lists.
 Program to find the second smallest number and second largest number in a list.
 Given a list of numbers of list, write a Python program to create a list of tuples
having first element as the number and second element as the square of the
number.
 Given list of tuples, remove all the tuples with length K.
Input : test_list = [(4, 5), (4, ), (8, 6, 7), (1, ), (3, 4, 6, 7)], K = 2
Output : [(4, ), (8, 6, 7), (1, ), (3, 4, 6, 7)]
Explanation : (4, 5) of len = 2 is removed.
 Program to generate and print a dictionary that contains a number (between 1
and n) in the form (x, x*x).
Sample Input: (n=5) :
Expected Output : {1: 1, 2: 4, 3: 9, 4: 16, 5: 25}
 Program to remove a key from a dictionary
 Program to get the maximum and minimum value in a dictionary.
 Program to perform operations on string using unicodes ,splitting of string,accessing
elements of string using locations
 Program for Counting occurrence of a certain element in a string, getting indexes that
have matching elements.For ex -.In Rabbit count how many times b has occurred .
Example-I have to go to a doctor and get myself checked. Count the number of
occurrences of ‘to’.
 Program for replacing one substring by another For example - Rabbit - Replace ‘bb’ by
‘cc’
 Program to Acronym generator for any user input (ex-input is Random memory access
then output should be RMA).Example - Random number (RN)
 Python function that accepts a string and calculates the number of uppercase
letters and lowercase letters.
 Program to count the number of strings where the string length is 2 or more and
the first and last character are same from a given list of strings
 Sample List : ['abc', 'xyz', 'aba', '1221'] Expected Result : 2

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Learning Outcomes:
After completion of this unit the student will be able to
 understand the concept of subprograms and recursion (L2).
 apply the in-built functions to develop custom functions for solving problems (L3).
 make use of parameter passing mechanisms (L3).
 develop user defined functions (recursive and non-recursive). (L3)
 summarize the features of lists, tuples, dictionaries, strings and files. (L2)
Module III: Files and Packages 15 H
Files—Python Read Files, Python Write/create Files, Python Delete Files.
Pandas -- Read/write from csv, excel, json files, add/ drop columns/rows, aggregations,
applying functions.
Exercises
 read an entire text file.
 read the first n lines of a file.
 append text to a file and display the text.
 Read numbers from a file and write even and odd numbers to separate files.
 Count characters, words and lines in a text file.
 To write a list to a file.
 Given a CSV file or excel file to read it into a dataframe and display it.
 Given a dataframe, select rows based on a condition.
 Given is a dataframe showing the name, occupation, salary of people. Find the
average salary per occupation.
 To convert Python objects into JSON strings. Print all the values.
 Write a Pandas program to read specific columns from a given excel file.
Learning Outcomes:
After completion of this unit the student will be able to
 read data from files of different formats and perform operations like slicing, insert,
delete, update(L3).
 Ability to define and use of Packages(L2).
Module IV: Operations in database with suitable libraries 15 H
SQLite3: CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) to manage data stored in a
database. Matplotlib -- Visualizing data with different plots, use of subplots. User defined
packages, define test cases.
Exercises
Special commands to sqlite3 (dot-commands)
Rules for "dot-commands"
Changing Output Formats
Querying the database schema
Redirecting I/O
Writing results to a file
Reading SQL from a file
File I/O Functions
The edit() SQL function
Importing CSV files
Export to CSV
Export to Excel
Reference - https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html
Matplotlib can be practiced by considering a dataset and visualizing it.
It is left to the instructor to choose appropriate dataset.

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Learning Outcomes:
After completion of this unit the student will be able to
● visualize the data (L4).
● Understanding the various operations performed with SQLite3. (L2)
● make use of SQLite3 operations to store and retrieve data (L3).

Module V: Regular Expressions 15 H

Regular expression: meta character, regEx functions, special sequences, Web scrapping,
Extracting data.

Exercises
Write a Python program to check that a string contains only a certain set of characters (in this
case a-z, A-Z and 0-9).
Write a Python program that matches a string that has an a followed by zero or more b's
Write a Python program that matches a string that has an a followed by one or more b's
Write a Python program that matches a string that has an a followed by zero or one 'b'
Write a Python program that matches a string that has an a followed by three 'b'
Write a Python program to find sequences of lowercase letters joined with an underscore
Write a Python program to test if a given page is found or not on the server.
Write a Python program to download and display the content of robot.txt for en.wikipedia.org.
Write a Python program to get the number of datasets currently listed on data.gov
Write a Python program to extract and display all the header tags from
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
.
Learning Outcomes:
After completion of this unit, the student will be able to:
● make use of Web scrapping operations (L3).
● Use regular expressions to extract data from strings.(L3)

Text Books(s)
1. Programming with python, T R Padmanabhan, Springer
2. Python Programming: Using Problem Solving Approach, Reema Thareja,
Oxford University Press

Reference Book(s)
1. Programming with python, T R Padmanabhan, Springer
2. Python Programming: Using Problem Solving Approach, Reema Thareja,
Oxford University Press
3. Python for Data Analysis, Wes McKinney, O.Reeilly
Course Outcomes:
 After completion of this course the student will be able to
 Define variables and construct expressions (L1).
 Utilize arrays, storing and manipulating data (L3).
 Develop efficient, modular programs using functions (L3).
 Write programs to store and retrieve data using files (L3).

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