Python - I Syllabus

Python – 1

Unit – I

 Introduction to Python: Python, Features of Python, Execution of a Python Program, Viewing the Byte Code, Flavors of Python, Python Virtual Machine, Frozen Binaries, Memory Management in Python, Garbage Collection in Python, Comparisons between C and Python, Comparisons between Java and Python.
 Writing Our First Python Program: Installing Python for Windows, Installing numpy, Setting the Path to Python, Writing Our First Python Program, Executing a Python Program, Getting Help in Python, Getting Python Documentation Help, Reopening the Python Program in IDLE.
 Data types in Python: Comments in Python, Doc strings, How Python Sees Variables, Data types in Python, Built-in data types, bool Data type, Sequences in Python, Sets, Literals in Python, Determining the Data type of a Variable, What about Characters, User-defined Data types, Constants in Python, Identifiers and Reserved words, Naming Conventions in Python.

 Unit – II 

Operators in Python: Arithmetic Operators, Assignment Operators, Unary Minus Operator, Relational Operators, Logical Operators, Boolean Operators, Bitwise Operators, Membership Operators, Identity Operators, Operator Precedence and Associativity, Mathematical Functions.
 Input and Output: Output statements, Input Statements, Command Line Arguments.
Control Statements: Control Statements, The if Statement, A Word on Indentation, The if … else Statement, The if … elif … else Statement, The while Loop, The for Loop, Infinite Loops, Nested Loops, The else Suite, The break Statement, The continue Statement, The pass Statement, The assert Statement, The return Statement.

Text     R. Nageswara Rao, Corer Python Programming, Dreamtech Press