Details of CS3102 (Autumn 2025)
| Level: 3 | Type: Laboratory | Credits: 4.0 |
| Course Code | Course Name | Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| CS3102 | Programming in Python | Dwaipayan Roy |
| Syllabus |
|---|
| Topics:
Introduction: Background of programming (What is a program? Good and bad programming etc.), algorithms and pseudo-code, need for good programming (Preliminaries of complexity of algorithms), idea of high-level and low-level languages, concept of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), advantages over structured programming, features of Python programming language, Python interpreter, history of Python, installation, execution of code in Python, debugging (errors syntax, semantic) [4 hours] Basic data types, keywords, identifiers, comments, I/O, variables, numbers, strings [8 hours] Operators: Arithmetic, assignment, logical, bitwise [2 hours] Lists, Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries [4 hours] Control flow: Ifthenelse, For, While loops [4 hours] Functions, lambda, modules [2 hours] Arrays [3 hour] Classes and objects, inheritance [2 hours] Iterators [1 hour] Scope [1 hour] Exception Handling [1 hour] File handling: Reading, Writing, Creating, Deleting [2 hours] Advanced topics: NumPy [2 hours] |
| References |
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| Books and references:
1. Learning Python (5th edition) - Mark Lutz. 2. Dive into Python - Mark Pilgrim 3. Programming Python for Absolute Beginners - M. Dawson. |
Course Credit Options
| Sl. No. | Programme | Semester No | Course Choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IP | 1 | Core |
| 2 | IP | 3 | Elective |
| 3 | IP | 5 | Not Allowed |
| 4 | MP | 1 | Not Allowed |
| 5 | MP | 3 | Elective |
| 6 | MR | 1 | Core |
| 7 | MR | 3 | Elective |
| 8 | MS | 3 | Not Allowed |
| 9 | MS | 5 | Not Allowed |
| 10 | MS | 7 | Not Allowed |
| 11 | MS | 9 | Not Allowed |
| 12 | RS | 1 | Elective |
| 13 | RS | 2 | Elective |