Python Fundamentals and Programming Basics
Track Software Development
Duration 30 hours
Skill Level Foundation
Language English

About this Course

Get started with Python programming including syntax, variables, control structures, and functions.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • What is Python?
  • History of Python
  • Versions of Python
  • Features of Python
  • Limitations of Python
  • Scripting vs Programming Languages
  • Applications of Python
  • Python 2 vs Python 3
  • What is Python used for?
  • Flavours of Python
  • Python compared to other Languages
  • Python vs Java
  • How Python works?
  • What is PVM?
  • Compiler vs Interpreter
  • Compile Time vs Run Time
  • Future Scope and Career Opportunities
  • What is Memory Management?
  • Memory Management in other Languages
  • Memory vs Storage
  • Three Areas of Memory Management
  • Importance of Memory Management
  • Memory Management
  • Memory Management in Python
  • Allocator Domain
  • Allocation Domains in detail
  • Python Memory Manager
  • Default Python Implementation (C Python)
  • GIL (Global Interpreter Lock)
  • Python Memory Allocation
  • Garbage Collection
  • Object Eligibility for GC
  • Reference Counting in Python
  • Cyclical References
  • Generational Garbage Collection
  • C Python Memory Management
  • Reduce Space Complexity
  • Python Installation (Windows)
  • Adding Python to Env Variable
  • Checking Python Version
  • Verifying Pip Installation
  • IDE and IDLE Editors
  • Running Python via IDLE
  • IDE Installation
  • How to install Visual Studio?
  • How to install Visual Studio?
  • Thonny Installation
  • Thonny Installation
  • Executing Python Program
  • Identifiers and Rules
  • Constants, Variables, Literals
  • Keywords
  • Comments
  • Python comments
  • Python comments
  • Benefits of using comments
  • Benefits of using comments
  • Syntax
  • Lines and Indentation
  • User Input
  • Data Types
  • Text, Numeric, Sequence, Mapping, Set, Boolean, Binary, None, Type Casting
  • Text, Numeric, Sequence, Mapping, Set, Boolean, Binary, None, Type Casting
  • Operators
  • Arithmetic, Assignment, Comparison, Logical, Identity, Membership, Bitwise
  • Arithmetic, Assignment, Comparison, Logical, Identity, Membership, Bitwise
  • Precedence, Ternary
  • Precedence, Ternary
  • Precedence, Ternary
  • What are Control Flow Statements?
  • Decision Control Statements
  • Simple if, if-else, nested if, elif ladder
  • Simple if, if-else, nested if, elif ladder
  • Short hand if/else, and/or usage
  • Short hand if/else, and/or usage
  • Short hand if/else, and/or usage
  • Transfer Statements
  • Break, Continue, Pass
  • Break, Continue, Pass
  • Iterative Statements
  • For, While, Nested Loops
  • For, While, Nested Loops
  • Pattern Programs
  • Data Types (brief)
  • String Access & Indexing
  • String Slicing
  • Mutable & Immutable
  • Math Ops on Strings (+, *)
  • String Comparison
  • Membership
  • Format Strings
  • Escape Characters
  • Removing Spaces
  • Finding Substring
  • Count Substring, len()
  • Replace Strings
  • Split & Join
  • Change Case
  • Start/End Check
  • Check Character Types
  • List Creation
  • Access Elements
  • Mutability
  • Traversal
  • List Functions
  • List Manipulation
  • append(), insert(), extend(), remove()
  • append(), insert(), extend(), remove()
  • Ordering Elements
  • Aliasing & Cloning
  • Mathematical Ops
  • Comparison & Membership
  • Nested List
  • List Comprehension
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

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