• PYTHON FOUNDATIONS TO ADVANCED

    A year-long program for students in grades 6+

    Starting September 2023

  • 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
    • Review the fundamentals of writing Python scripts
    • Learn advanced programming concepts
    • Learn how to translate requirements into design, pseudo code and program
    • Learn to create algorithms in programming such as reading credit card number
    • Introduction to AI and data analytics

  • PROGRAM DETAILS

    HELPING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH STEM

    1

    Python and Programming Basics

    • What is Programming? 
    • What is Python?
    • Review of basic concepts of Python
    • Role of python in problem-solving 
    • Assignment Sample: Given an integer n. Find politeness of number n. The politeness of a number is defined as the number of ways it can be expressed as the sum of consecutive integers.
    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 and Games

    • 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

    Mid Term PROJECT

    • The mid term project will be assigned in week 3. Students are supposed to use all concepts taught through the term and demo their solution in the mid-term weeks The project will be marked based on the creativity and use of concepts taught.
    9

    Lists and Tuples

    • Assignment Sample: Write a function to draw histogram that using turtle for a given list of data,
    • Write a program that simulates rolling two 6-sided dice 100 times, and keeps track of how many times each sum occurs. What sum appears the most number of times? Print a table that shows a difference in the ratio of the actual occurrence to its theoretical probability. What happens if we increase frequency to 1000 or even higher numbers?
    10

    FIle Processing

    • Assignment Sample: Write a function that takes a filename as input and returns 3 integers to show the number of lines in the file, number of words in the file, and the number of characters in the file.
    • Each line of a file consists of a student's name, a sequence of integers which represent scores on various subjects.
      Write a program to read the data from this file and to write a new file. Each line of the new file should consist of a student's name and his/her average score.
    11

    Dictionaries

    • Assignment Sample: Write a program to do the translation of a paragraph in a file based on mapping of words in another file. The translated paragraph should be written to the third file.
    12

    RECURSION

    • Assignment Sample: Write a program to find factorial of a number using recursion.
    • Write a program to sort a stack using recursion.
    • Write a program to reverse a stack using recursion.
    13

    DEEP DIVE INTO ALGORTHIMS

    • Strategies for creating algorithms
    • Assignment Sample: Write a program to find all prime factors of a number. Also, find total factors of the number and sum of all the factors.
    • Write a program to find GCD and LCM of a number.
    • Write a program to calculate the maximum profit by selling N items at two markets.
    14

    INTRODUCTION TO AI USING PYTHON

    • What is AI? 
    • How can you create an AI based model?
    • How can you use AI through python for solving day-2-day problems?
    • Data and decision analysis.
    • Create an AI Model and use Python scripts to consume this model.
    15

    FINAL PROJECT

    • The final project will be assigned in after mid-term. Students are supposed to use all concepts taught through the year and demo their solution in the final 2 weeks. The project will be marked based on the creativity and use of concepts taught.

  • COURSE LOGISTICS

    35

    Total Number of Sessions

    60

    Length of each session in minutes

    Sep 2023 - Jun 2024

    First session starts, weekly

    TBD

    We are working on the details. We will keep you posted. Please talk to us before enrolling for the course.

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