KNC402: Python Programming – A Practical Approach
*All Dates are tentative and subject to change.
| Week | Lecture | Topics | Start Date | Quiz Date |
| Week 1 | Lecture 01 | Introduction The Programming Cycle for Python Getting started | 4-Aug-2020 | 24-Aug-2020 |
| Lecture 02 | Variables and simple data types,Elements of Python | |||
| Lecture 03 | Type Conversion, Expressions, Assignment Statement, Arithmetic Operators, Operator Precedence, Boolean Expression | |||
| Week 2 | Lecture 04 | Introducing lists | 11-Aug-2020 | 31-Aug-2020 |
| Lecture 05 | Working with lists | |||
| Lecture 06 | For Loop, Nested Loops, Tuples, Unpacking Sequences, Lists | |||
| Week 3 | Lecture 07 | Mutable Sequences, List Comprehension, Sets, If staements - part 1 | 18-Aug-2020 | 7-Sep-2020 |
| Lecture 08 | If staements - part 2 | |||
| Lecture 09 | Conditionals, Conditionals (Continued), Expression Evaluation, Float Representation | |||
| Week 4 | Lecture 10 | Dictionaries - part 1 | 25-Aug-2020 | 14-Sep-2020 |
| Lecture 11 | Dictionaries - part 2 | |||
| Lecture 12 | User input and while loops - part 1 | |||
| Week 5 | Lecture 13 | User input and while loops - part 2, Loops, Loops (Continued) | 1-Sep-2020 | 21-Sep-2020 |
| Lecture 14 | Break and Continue, Functions - part 1 | |||
| Lecture 15 | Functions - part 2 | |||
| Week 6 | Lecture 16 | Functions - part 3 | 8-Sep-2020 | 28-Sep-2020 |
| Lecture 17 | Parts of A Function, Execution of A, Function, Keyword and Default, Arguments, Scope Rules, Strings | |||
| Lecture 18 | Indexing and Slicing of Strings, More, Slicing, Higher Order Functions, Sieve of Eratosthenes, Abstract Data Types | |||
| Week 7 | Lecture 19 | Classes - part 1 | 15-Sep-2020 | 5-Oct-2020 |
| Lecture 20 | Classes - part 2 | |||
| Lecture 21 | Modules, Importing Modules, Classes, Special Methods | |||
| Week 8 | Lecture 22 | Class Example, Inheritance, Inheritance and OOP | 22-Sep-2020 | 12-Oct-2020 |
| Lecture 23 | Files and Exceptions - part 1 | |||
| Lecture 24 | Files and Exceptions - part 2 | |||
| Week 9 | Lecture 25 | File I/O, Exceptions | 29-Sep-2020 | 19-Oct-2020 |
| Lecture 26 | Testing your code | |||
| Lecture 27 | Assertions, Iterators, Recursion, Simple Search | |||
| Week 10 | Lecture 28 | Estimating Search Time, Binary Search, Estimating Binary Search Time | 6-Oct-2020 | 26-Oct-2020 |
| Lecture 29 | Recursive Fibonacci, Tower Of Hanoi, Sorting | |||
| Lecture 30 | Selection Sort, Merge List, Merge Sort, Higher Order Sort |
*All Dates are tentative and subject to change.