Programming for Competitions
Programming for Competitions
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Understand the power of programming in solving problems
- Understand what a software hiring manager validates when hiring a software engineer
- Learn how to make python a go-to-tool for applying it in solving problems in our day-2-day life
- Master the fundamentals of writing Python scripts
- Learn core Python scripting elements such as variables and flow control structures
- Discover how to work with lists and sequence data
- Write Python functions to facilitate code reuse
- Use Python to read and write files
- Make their code robust by handling errors and exceptions properly
- Work with the Python standard library
PROGRAM DETAILS
HELPING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH STEM
1INTRODUCTION
- What is Programming?
- What is Python?
- Role of python in problem-solving
- Write your first python program
2Data Types, Variables, and Expressions
- Assignment Sample: Write a program to calculate the percentage increase in the cylinder if the height and or radius is increased/decreased by a given percentage.
3Turtle Graphics
- Assignment Sample: Write a program that displays a clock. It should ask the user to input an hour and minutes, and then have the turtle draw a clock face with the hour and minute hands in the correct position.
4Functions, booleans and conditions
- Assignment Sample: On planet CK STEM, each year has 15 months and each month has 26 days. Write a program to calculate your age on CK STEM today? How much younger or older you will be on this new planet?
5Looping and iterations
- Assignment Sample: Morphe images to change its face or make it run etc.
- Write a program to check whether a product of digits at even places is divisible by the sum of digits at the odd place of a number.
6Strings
- Assignment Sample: Write a function that returns an acronym for a string consisting of the all capital letter of each word in a string. For example, make_acronym('Competitive Kids STEM') would return 'CKSTEM'.
- Write a program to find if a word is a palindrome.
7Flow of Control
- Assignment Samples: Write a program to calculate maximum profit after buying and selling the stocks
- Write a program that asks the user to enter a positive integer n and then outputs the nth Fibonacci number.
- Solve a simple 3x3 or a complex 9x9 sudoku using lists.
8FINAL PROJECT
- The final project will be assigned in week 3. Students are supposed to use all concepts taught from week 1-8 and demo their solution in the final 2 weeks. The project will be marked based on the creativity and use of concepts taught in the first 8 weeks.
COURSE LOGISTICS
15
Total Number of Sessions
60
Length of each session in minutes
Sep 16 - Dec 23
First session starts, weekly
6:30 pm
Eastern Time (ET) when we will meet online every Thursday
ENROLL
Python programming
500.00 - 900.00This course is for beginners with no coding experience to start learning a simple programming language. Our courses are carefully designed by industry leading professionals to enable critical thinking and problem solving skills using Python. We want students to understand how can they make Python as their go-to-tool even after course is finished.View more details...SelectQuantityCOURSE REQUEST FORM
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