COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Year of
CST PROGRAMMING IN Category L T P Credit
Introduction
362 PYTHON
PEC 2 1 0 3 2019

Preamble: The objective of the course is to equip the learners to develop multi-module software
solutions for real world computational problems using Python. It encompasses the Python
programming environment, syntax, data representations, intermediate level features, GUI
programming, Object Oriented Programming and data processing. This course lays the
foundation to develop modular software solutions including complex interactive applications,
network applications, and data-driven intelligent applications.

Prerequisite: Basic knowledge in Computational Problem Solving, A course in any

programming language.

Course Outcomes: After the completion of the course the student will be able to
Write, test and debug Python programs (Cognitive Knowledge level:
CO1
Apply)
Illustrate uses of conditional (if, if-else and if-elif-else ) and
CO2 iterative (while and for) statements in Python programs. (Cognitive
Knowledge level: Apply)
Develop programs by utilizing the Python programming constructs such as Lists,
CO3
Tuples, Sets and Dictionaries. (Cognitive Knowledge level: Apply)
Develop graphical user interface for solutions using Python libraries. (Cognitive
CO4
Knowledge level: Apply)
Implement Object Oriented programs with exception handling. (Cognitive
CO5
Knowledge level: Apply)
Write programs in Python to process data stored in files by utilizing
CO6
Numpy, Matplotlib, and Pandas. (Cognitive Knowledge level: Apply)

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Mapping of course outcomes with program outcomes

PO1
PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO11 PO12
0

CO1 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

CO2 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

CO3 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

CO4 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

CO5 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

CO6 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Abstract POs defined by National Board of Accreditation

#PO Broad PO #PO Broad PO

PO1 Engineering Knowledge PO7 Environment and Sustainability

PO2 Problem Analysis PO8 Ethics

PO3 Design/Development of solutions PO9 Individual and team work

PO4 Conduct investigations of complex problems PO10 Communication

PO5 Modern tool usage PO11 Project Management and Finance

PO6 The Engineer and Society PO12 Life long learning

Assessment Pattern

Test 1 (Marks in Test 2 (Marks in End Semester

Bloom’s Category
percentage) percentage) Examination Marks

Remember 20 20 20

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Understand 35 35 35

Apply 45 45 45

Analyse

Evaluate

Create

Mark Distribution

Total Marks CIE Marks ESE Marks ESE Duration

150 50 100 3

Continuous Internal Evaluation Pattern:

Attendance : 10 marks
Continuous Assessment Test : 25 marks
Continuous Assessment Assignment : 15 marks

Internal Examination Pattern:

Each of the two internal examinations has to be conducted out of 50 marks. The first series test
shall be preferably conducted after completing the first half of the syllabus and the second series
test shall be preferably conducted after completing the remaining part of the syllabus. There will
be two parts: Part A and Part B. Part A contains 5 questions (preferably, 2 questions each from
the completed modules and 1 question from the partly completed module), having 3 marks for
each question adding up to 15 marks for part A. Students should answer all questions from Part
A. Part B contains 7 questions (preferably, 3 questions each from the completed modules and 1
question from the partly completed module), each with 7 marks. Out of the 7 questions, a student
should answer any 5.

End Semester Examination Pattern:

There will be two parts; Part A and Part B. Part A contains 10 questions with 2 questions from
each module, having 3 marks for each question. Students should answer all questions. Part B

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contains 2 questions from each module of which a student should answer any one. Each question
can have a maximum of 2 sub-divisions and carries 14 marks.

SYLLABUS
Module -1 (Programming Environment and Python Basics) (6 hours)
Getting started with Python programming – Interactive shell, IDLE, iPython Notebooks,
Detecting and correcting syntax errors, How Python works. The software development process –
A case study. Basic coding skills – strings, assignment, and comments, Numeric data types and
character sets, Expressions, Using inbuilt functions and modules. Control statements – Iteration
with for/while loop, Formatting text for output, A case study, Selection structure (if-else, switch-
case), Conditional iteration with while, A case study, Testing control statements, Lazy evaluation.
Module -2 (Building Python Programs) (8 hours)
Strings and text files – Accessing characters, substrings, Data encryption, Strings and number
system, String methods, Text files, A case study on text analysis. Design with Functions –
Functions as Abstraction Mechanisms, Problem solving with top-down design, Design with
recursive functions, Managing a program’s namespace, Higher-Order Functions. Lists - Basic list
Operations and functions, List of lists, Slicing, Searching and sorting list, List comprehension.
Work with tuples. Sets. Work with dates and times, A case study with lists. Dictionaries -
Dictionary functions, dictionary literals, adding and removing keys, accessing and replacing
values, traversing dictionaries, reverse lookup. Case Study – Data Structure Selection.
Module -3 (Graphics) (7 hours)
Graphics – Terminal-based programs, Simple Graphics using Turtle, Operations, 2D Shapes,
Colors and RGB Systems, A case study. Image Processing – Basic image processing with inbuilt
functions. Graphical User Interfaces – Event-driven programming, Coding simple GUI-based
programs : Windows, Labels, Displaying images, Input text entry, Popup dialog boxes,
Command buttons, A case study.
Module -4 (Object Oriented Programming) (7 hours)
Design with classes - Objects and Classes, Methods, Instance variables, Constructor, Accessor
and Mutator, Data-Modeling Examples, Structuring classes with inheritance and polymorphism.
Abstract classes, Interfaces, Exceptions - Handle a single exception, handle multiple exceptions.
Module -5 (Data Processing) (9 hours)
The os and sys modules, NumPy - Basics, Creating arrays, Arithmetic, Slicing, Matrix
Operations, Random numbers. Plotting and visualization. Matplotlib - Basic plot, Ticks, Labels,
and Legends. Working with CSV files. – Pandas - Reading, Manipulating, and Processing Data.
Introduction to Micro services using Flask.

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Text Books:
1. Kenneth A Lambert., Fundamentals of Python : First Programs, 2/e, Cengage Publishing, 2016
2. Wes McKinney, Python for Data Analysis, 2/e, Shroff / O’Reilly Publishers, 2017
3. Flask: Building Python web services, Jack Stouffer, Shalabh Aggarwal, Gareth Dwyer,
PACKT Publishing Limited, 2018
Reference Books:
1. Zed A Shaw, Learn Python 3 The Hard Way, Addison-Wesley, 2017
2. Allen B. Downey, Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, 2/e, Schroff, 2016
3. Michael Urban and Joel Murach, Python Programming, Shroff/Murach, 2016
4. Charles Severance. Python for Informatics: Exploring Information,

Sample Course Level Assessment Questions

Course Outcome1(CO1):
1. What is type conversion? How is it done in Python?
2. Write a note on the Python editors.

Course Outcome 2(CO2):

1. Write a Python program which takes a positive integer n as input and finds the sum of cubes
all positive even numbers less than or equal to the number.
2. What is printed when the below code is executed?
mysum = 0
for i in range(5, 11, 2):
mysum += i
if mysum == 5:
break
mysum += 1
print(mysum)

What would be the output if ‘break’ is replaced with ‘continue’ in the above code fragment?
Course Outcome 3(CO3):
1. Given is a list of of words, wordlist, and a string, name. Write a Python function which takes
wordlist and name as input and returns a tuple. The first element of the output tuple is the
number of words in the wordlist which have name as a substring in it. The second element of

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the tuple is a list showing the index at which the name occurs in each of the words of the
wordlist and a 0 if it doesn’t occur.
2. What is the value of L after you run the code below?
L = ["life", "answer", 42, 0]
for thing in L:
if thing == 0:
L[thing] = "universe"
elif thing == 42:
L[1] = "everything"

Course Outcome 4(CO4):

1. A bouncy program is defined as follows – The program computes and displays the total
distance traveled by a ball, given three inputs—the initial height from which it is dropped, its
bounciness index, and the number of bounces. Given the inputs write a GUI-based program
to compute the total distance traveled.
2. Write a Python program to find the quadrant of a point, say (x,y).

Course Outcome 5(CO5):

1. Write a Python program to implement the addition, subtraction, and multiplication of
complex numbers using classes. Use constructors to create objects. The input to the program
consist of real and imaginary parts of the complex numbers.
2. Explain inheritance in Python using suitable examples.

Course Outcome 6(CO6):

1. Given a file “auto.csv” of automobile data with the fields index, company, body-style, wheel-
base, length, engine-type, num-of-cylinders, horsepower, average-mileage, and price, write
python code to
1. Clean and Update the CSV file
2. Print total cars of all companies
3. Find the average mileage of all companies
4. Find the highest priced car of all companies.
2. Given two matrices A and B, write a program to find the product of A and BT.

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Model Question Paper

QP CODE: PAGES:

Reg No:_______________
Name:_________________

APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY SIXTH SEMESTER B.TECH

DEGREE EXAMINATION, MONTH & YEAR

Course Code: CST 362

Course name : PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON
Max Marks: 100 Duration: 3 Hours
PART-A
(Answer All Questions. Each question carries 3 marks)
Write a Python program to reverse a number and also find the sum of digits of the number.
1.
Prompt the user for input.
Explain the concept of scope and lifetime of variables in Python programming language,
2.
with a suitable example.
3. Illustrate format specifiers and escape sequences with examples.
4. Compare tuples, lists, and dictionaries with examples.
Describe the following dictionary methods with an example.
5.
i. get( ) ii. Keys( ) iii. pop( ) iv. update( ) v. values( ) vi. items( )
6. Differentiate the terminal-based and GUI-based programming in Python.
7. What is polymorphism? Give an example in the context of OOP in Python.
8. How is exception handling accomplished in Python programs?
Explain the os and os.path modules in Python with examples. Also, discuss the walk( )
9.
and getcwd( ) methods of the os module.
10. What are the important characteristics of CSV file format.

PART-B
(Answer any one full question from each module)

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11. (a) Write a Python code to check whether a given year is a leap year or not (6)
[An year is a leap year if it’s divisible by 4 but not divisible by 100
except for those divisible by 400].
(b) What are the possible errors in a Python program. Write a Python (8)
program to print the value of 22n+n+5 for n provided by the user.
OR
12. (a) Write a Python program to find the value for sin(x) up to n terms using the (6)
series

where x is in degrees

(b) Write a Python code to determine whether the given string is a Palindrome (8)
or not using slicing. Do not use any string function.

13. (a) Write a Python code to create a function called list_of_frequency that takes a (5)
string and prints the letters in non-increasing order of the frequency of their
occurrences. Use dictionaries.
(b) Write a Python program to read a list of numbers and sort the list in a non- (9)
decreasing order without using any built in functions. Separate function
should be written to sort the list wherein the name of the list is passed as the
parameter.
OR
14. (a) Illustrate the following Set methods with an example. (6)
i. intersection( ) ii. Union( ) iii. Issubset( ) iv. Difference( ) v. update( ) vi.
discard( )
(b) Write a Python program to check the validity of a password given by the (8)
user.
The Password should satisfy the following criteria:
1. Contains at least one letter between a and z
2. Contains at least one number between 0 and 9
3. Contains at least one letter between A and Z
4. Contains at least one special character from $, #, @
5. Minimum length of password: 6

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15. (a) Write a program to draw a hexagon using turtle. (5)

(b) Write a note on the image processing function in Python. (9)
OR
16. (a) Describe the features of event driven programming. (4)
(b) Write a GUI-based program that allows the user to convert temperature (10)
values between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. The interface
should have labeled entry fields for these two values. These components
should be arranged in a grid where the labels occupy the first row and the
corresponding fields occupy the second row. At start-up, the Fahrenheit field
should contain 32.0, and the Celsius field should contain 0.0. The third row
in the window contains two command buttons, labeled >>>> and <<<<.
When the user presses the first button, the program should use the data in
the Fahrenheit field to compute the Celsius value, which should then be
output to the Celsius field. The second button should perform the inverse
function.

17. (a) How can a class be instantiated in Python? Write a Python program to (10)
express the instances as return values to define a class RECTANGLE with
parameters height, width, corner_x, and corner_y and member functions to
find center, area, and perimeter of an instance.
(b) Explain inheritance in Python. Give examples for each type of inheritance. (4)
OR
18. (a) Write a Python class named Circle constructed by a radius and two methods (6)
which will compute the area and the perimeter of a given circle
(b) Write Python program to create a class called as Complex and implement (8)
__add__( ) method to add two complex numbers. Display the result by
overloading the + Operator.

19. (a) Write a Python program to add two matrices and also find the transpose of (8)
the resultant matrix.
(b) Given a file “auto.csv” of automobile data with the fields index, company, (6)
body-style, wheel-base, length, engine-type, num-of-cylinders, horsepower,
average-mileage, and price, write Python codes using Pandas to
1) Clean and Update the CSV file
2) Print total cars of all companies

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3) Find the average mileage of all companies

4) Find the highest priced car of all companies.
OR

20. (a) Write Python program to write the data given below to a CSV file. (5)

SN Name Country Contribution Year

1 Linus Torvalds Finland Linux Kernel 1991

2 Tim Berners-Lee England World Wide Web 1990

3 Guido van Rossum Netherlands Python 1991

(b) Given the sales information of a company as CSV file with the following (9)
fields month_number, facecream, facewash, toothpaste, bathingsoap,
shampoo, moisturizer, total_units, total_profit. Write Python codes to
visualize the data as follows
1) Toothpaste sales data of each month and show it using a scatter plot
2) Face cream and face wash product sales data and show it using the
bar chart
Calculate total sale data for last year for each product and show it using a
Pie chart.

(14X5=70)

Teaching Plan

Module 1: Programming Environment and Python Basics (6 hours)

Getting started with Python programming – Interactive shell, IDLE, iPython

1.1 1 hour
Notebooks, Detecting and correcting syntax errors, How Python works.

1.2 The software development process – A case study. 1 hour

Basic coding skills – strings, assignment, and comments, Numeric data

1.3 1 hour
types and character sets

1.4 Expressions, Using inbuilt functions and modules. 1 hour

1.5 Control statements – Definite Iteration with for loop, Formatting text for 1 hour
output, Selection structure (if-else, switch-case), Conditional iteration with

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while loop, A case study

1.6 Testing the control statements, Lazy evaluation. 1 hour

Module 2: Building Python Programs (8 hours)

Strings – Accessing characters, substrings, Data encryption, Strings and

2.1 1 hour
number system, String methods,

2.2 Text files, A case study on text analysis. 1 hour

Design with Functions – Functions as Abstraction Mechanisms, Problem

2.3 1 hour
solving with top-down design,

Design with recursive functions, Managing a program’s namespace, Higher-

2.4 1 hour
Order Functions.

Lists - Basic list Operations and functions, List of lists, Slicing, Searching
2.5 1 hour
and sorting list, List comprehension.

2.6 Work with tuples. Sets. Work with dates and times, A case study with lists. 1 hour

Dictionaries - Dictionary functions, dictionary literals, adding and removing

2.7 keys, accessing and replacing values, traversing dictionaries, reverse 1 hour
lookup.

2.8 Case Study - Data Structure Selection. 1 hour

Module 3: Graphics (7 hours)

3.1 Graphics – Simple Graphics using Turtle, Operations, 2D Shapes, 1 hour

3.2 Colors and RGB Systems, A case study. 1 hour

3.3 Image Processing – Basic image processing with inbuilt functions. 1 hour

3.4 Graphical User Interfaces – Event-driven programming 1 hour

3.5 Coding simple GUI-based programs : Windows, Labels, Displaying images, 1 hour

Coding simple GUI-based programs : Input text entry, Popup dialog boxes,
3.6 1 hour
Command buttons

3.7 A case study - GUI 1 hour

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Module 4: Object Oriented Programming (7 hours)

4.1 Design with classes : Objects and Classes, Methods, Instance Variables 1 hour

4.2 Constructor, Accessors, and Mutators 1 hour

4.3 Structuring classes with Inheritance 1 hour

4.4 Polymorphism 1 hour

4.5 Abstract Classes 1 hour

4.6 Interfaces 1 hour

4.7 Exceptions : Handle a single exception, handle multiple exceptions 1 hour

Module 5: Data Processing (9 hours)

The os and sys modules, NumPy : Basics, Creating arrays, Arithmetic,

5.1 1 hour
Slicing

5.2 Matrix Operations, Random numbers. 1 hour

5.3 Matplotlib : Basic plot, Ticks, Labels, and Legends 1 hour

5.4 Working with CSV files 1 hour

5.5 Pandas : Reading, Manipulating 1 hour

5.6 Pandas : Processing Data and Visualize. 1 hour

5.7 Introduction to Microservices using Flask 1 hour

5.8 Introduction to Microservices using Flask 1 hour

5.9 Introduction to Microservices using Flask 1 hour

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