• PYTHON BASICS FOR PROBLEM SOLVERS

      Programming for Beginners

    • 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

      7:00 pm

      Eastern Time (ET) when we will meet online every Wednesday

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