COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Year of
CST Python for Machine Category L T P Credit
Introduction
283 Learning
MINOR 3 1 0 4 2019

Preamble: This is a programming course for awarding B. Tech. Minor in Computer Science and
Engineering with specialization in Machine Learning. The objective of the course is to provide
learners an insight into Python programming, and develop programming skills to manage the
development of software systems. It covers programming environment, important instructions,
data representations, intermediate level features, Object Oriented Programming and file data
processing of Python. This course lays the foundation to develop web applications, Machine
Learning, and Artificial Intelligence-based applications and tools, Data Science and Data
Visualization applications.

Prerequisite: Nil

Course Outcomes: After the completion of the course the student will be able to

CO1 Write, test and debug Python programs (Cognitive Knowledge level: Apply)

Illustrate uses of conditional (if, if-else, if-elif-else and switch-case) and iterative
CO2
(while and for) statements in Python programs (Cognitive Knowledge level: Apply)
Develop programs by utilizing the modules Lists, Tuples, Sets and Dictionaries in
CO3
Python (Cognitive Knowledge level: Apply)
Implement Object Oriented programs with exception handling (Cognitive Knowledge
CO4
level: Apply)
Write programs in Python to process data stored in files by utilizing the modules
CO5
Numpy, Matplotlib, and Pandas (Cognitive Knowledge level: Apply)

Mapping of course outcomes with program outcomes

PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12
CO1 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

CO2 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
CO3 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

CO4 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

CO5 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
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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

Conduct investigations of complex
PO4 PO10 Communication
problems

PO5 Modern tool usage PO11 Project Management and Finance

PO6 The Engineer and Society PO12 Life long learning

Assessment Pattern

End Semester
Test 1 (Marks in Test 2 (Marks
Bloom’s Category Examination (Marks in
percentage) in percentage)
percentage)
Remember 20 20 20
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:
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conducted out ofSCIENCE AND
50 marks. The firstENGINEERING
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
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 I
Programming Environment and Python Basics:
Getting Started with Python Programming - Running code in the interactive shell, Editing,
Saving, and Running a script. Using editors - IDLE, Jupyter. The software development process
- Case Study.

Basic coding skills - Working with data types, Numeric data types and Character sets, Keywords,
Variables and Assignment statement, Operators, Expressions, Working with numeric data, Type
conversions, Comments in the program. Input, Processing, and Output. Formatting output. How
Python works. Detecting and correcting syntax errors. Using built in functions and modules in
math module.
Module II
Building Python Programs:
Control statements - Selection structure (if-else, switch-case), Iteration structure(for, while),
Testing the control statements, Lazy evaluation. Functions - Hiding redundancy and complexity,
Arguments and return values, Variable scopes and parameter passing, Named arguments, Main
function, Working with recursion, Lambda functions. Strings and number systems - String
function, Handling numbers in various formats.

Module III
Data Representation:
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. Dictionaries - Dictionary
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keys, accessing and AND ENGINEERING
replacing values,
traversing dictionaries, reverse lookup. Case Study - Data Structure Selection.

Module IV
Object Oriented Programming:
Design with classes - Objects and Classes, Methods, Instance Variables, Constructor, Accessors
and Mutators. Structuring classes with Inheritance and Polymorphism. Abstract Classes.
Exceptions - Handle a single exception, handle multiple exceptions.

Module V
Data Processing:
The os and sys modules. Introduction to file I/O - Reading and writing text files, Manipulating
binary files. 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.

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

Reference Books:
1. Allen B. Downey, Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, 2/e, Schroff,
2016
2. Michael Urban and Joel Murach, Python Programming, Shroff/Murach, 2016
3. David M.Baezly, Python Essential Reference. Addison-Wesley Professional; 4/e, 2009.
4. Charles Severance. Python for Informatics: Exploring Information,
5. http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/

Sample Course Level Assessment Questions

Course Outcome1(CO1): What is type conversion? How is it done in Python?

Course Outcome 2(CO2): 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.

Course Outcome 3(CO3): 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
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which have AND ENGINEERING
name as a substring in it. The
second element of 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.

Course Outcome 4(CO4): 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.

Course Outcome 5(CO5): 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.