Algorithms and Flowcharts to Solve Problems

❋ Flow Chart Symbols,

❋ Basic algorithms/flowcharts for sequential processing, decision based processing and iterative processing.

 Some examples like: Exchanging values of two variables, summation of a set of numbers, Decimal Base to Binary Base conversion, Reversing digits of an integer, GCD (Greatest Common Division) of two numbers, Test whether a number is prime, factorial computation, Fibonacci sequence, Evaluate ‘sin x’ as sum of a series, Reverse order of elements of an array, Find largest number in an array, Print elements of upper triangular matrix, etc.

Introduction to Python

❋ Python Introduction,

❋ Technical Strength of Python,

❋ Introduction to Python Interpreter and program execution Using Comments, Literals,Constants,

❋ Python’s Built-in Data types,

❋ Numbers (Integers, Floats, Complex Numbers, Real, Sets),

❋ Strings (Slicing, Indexing,Concatenation, other operations on Strings),

❋ Accepting input from Console

❋ Printing statements,

❋ Simple ‘Python’ programs

Sequence Data Types

❋ Lists, tuples and dictionary, (Slicing, Indexing, Concatenation, other operations on Sequence data type), Concept of mutability, Examples to include finding the maximum, minimum, mean; linear search on list/tuple of numbers, and counting the frequency of elements in a list using a dictionary.

Functions

❋ Top-down approach of problem solving,

❋ Modular programming and functions,

❋ Function parameters,

❋ Local variables,

❋ the Return statement,

❋ DocStrings, global statement,

❋ Default argument values,

❋ keyword arguments,

❋ VarArgs parameters.

Library function-input(), eval(),print(),