Python Programming for School Children at IIT Kanpur

Python Programming for School Children

from Prutor@IIT Kanpur

26, 27, 28, 29 December 2021

About the Course

Prutor, IIT Kanpur is organizing a 4 day-long workshop on Python basics aimed at school children from classes 9 to 12. The course provides a great opportunity to expose children to the world of programming through Python which is one of the most popular high-level programming languages among programmers and IT developers.

It will not be a purely theoretical course since a major portion of the course will be dedicated to encouraging students to solve problems. Any difficulties in solving the exercises will be addressed through real-time interactions with our teaching assistants.

Features of the course:

The course will be taught in a blended format: through live lectures, pre-recorded videos, and live Q/A sessions.
Slides and video recordings of the lectures will also be provided.
Students will be evaluated based on a final quiz.
Certificates from Prutor@IIT Kanpur will also be awarded at the end of the course.

Course Contents:

01. Basics of Python programming:

Python interpreter - interactive and script mode
The structure of a program, indentation
Identifiers
Keywords
Constants
Variables
Types of operators
Precedence of
Operators
Data types
Mutable and immutable data types
Statements
Expressions
Evaluation of expressions
Comments
Input and output statements
Data type conversion
Debugging

02. Control Statements:

if-else
for loop

03. List Operations:

Creating
Initializing
Traversing and manipulating lists
List methods and built-in functions.: len(), list(), append(), extend(), insert(), count(), find(), remove(), pop(), reverse(), sort(), sorted(), min(), max(), sum()

04. Dictionary:

Concept of key-value pair
Creating
Initializing
Traversing
Updating and deleting elements
Dictionary methods and built-in functions: len(), dict(), keys(), values(), items(), get(), update(), clear(), del()