• 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

    1

    INTRODUCTION

    • What is Programming? 
    • What is Python?
    • Role of python in problem-solving 
    • Write your first python program
    2

    Data 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. 
    3

    Turtle 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.
    4

    Functions, 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?
    5

    Looping 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.
    6

    Strings

    • 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.
    7

    Flow 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.
    8

    FINAL 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

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