B.Sc. Prog.

Computer Science Sem IV

DSE 01a: Python Programming for Data Handling

(Admission 2022 onwards)

TOPICS/UNITS Chapter Ref

Week 1 Unit 1 (15 Hours) Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 6, Ch. [1]
to 5 Introduction to Python Programming, Basic 7
Constructs, and Python Built-in Data
Structures: Introduction to Python
programming language, Basic syntax,
variables, and data types in Python, Functions
and modular programming; Conditional
statements (if, elif, else); Looping structures
(for and while loops); Mutable and Immutable
Data Structures, Strings- Indexing, slicing,
traversal, operations; Lists-indexing, slicing,
traversal, operations; tuples, dictionaries, and
sets and their operations in Python.
Week 6 Unit 2 (5 Hours) Ch. 9:9.1,9.2 [1]
to 7 File Handling: Opening, reading, writing, and
closing files; File modes and file object methods; Online reference 1 [csv.reader()
Reading and writing text and binary files; and csv.writer(), dictReader()
Working with CSV files and dictWriter()]
Online reference 2 [7.2. Reading
and Writing Files, 7.2.1]

Week 8 Unit 3 (15 Hours) Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3 (Till Reset [2]
to 12 Designing GUI Applications with Tkinter Function)
(15): What is Tkinter? Creating a Tkinter
window, Layout managers, Tkinter widgets -
Entry, Spinbox, Combobox, Checkbutton, Text,
Button, LabelFrame; Implementing the
application - LabelInput class, building of form,
adding LabelFrame and other widgets, retrieving
data from form, resetting form, building our
application class.
Week Unit 4 (10 Hours) Ch. 3 (The Save callback) [2]
13 to 15 Combining Python file handling and Tkinter:
Creating a simple Tkinter application, Reading
and Writing to csv files in a Tkinter application.
 References

1. Taneja S., Kumar, N. Python Programming- A modular approach, 1st Edition, Pearson Education India,
2018,

2. Moore, Alan D. Python GUI Programming with Tkinter: Develop responsive and powerful GUI
applications with Tkinter. Packt Publishing Ltd, 2021.

Additional References:

1. Guttag, J.V. Introduction to computation and programming using Python, 2nd edition, MIT

Online references/material:
1. https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html
2. https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files

Suggestive Practice Questions:

Installing and setting up Python and relevant libraries; Python development environments (e.g., Anaconda,
Jupyter Notebook)
1. Write a Python program to calculate the factorial of a number.
2. Write a Python program to generate prime numbers between 1 to n, where n is provided as input by
the user.
3. Write a Python program to find the sum and average of numbers in a given list.
4. Given two sets, set1 and set2, write a Python program to find their union, intersection and difference.
5. Given a list of numbers, write a Python program to count the number of times an element occurs in a
list and create a dictionary with element:count as key:value pairs.
6. Write a Python program to swap the first two and last two characters in a given string.
7. Write a Python program to create a text file having names of ten Indian cities.
8. Write a Python program to create a text file having atleast five lines about your college using
writelines() function.
9. Write a Python program which reads the data from two input files having Employee Names and
merges them into one output file.
10. Write a Python program to count the number of vowels in a file and write the vowel : count in a
dictionary.
11. Write a Python program to create a CSV file having student data: RollNo, Enrollment_No, Name,
Course, Semester.
12. Write a Python program library to read the CSV file created in the above program and filter out
records of II semester students.
13. Write a Python program using tkinter library to create a GUI to enter registration details for an event.
14. Write a Python program using tkinter library to create a calculator to perform addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division of two numbers entered by the user.
15. Write a Python program using tkinter library to create an age calculator to calculate age when DOB is
entered.
16. Write a Python program using tkinter library to read student details, namely, RollNo, Enrollment_No,
Name, Course, Semester, through a form and write the entered student details to a CSV file.
Contributors:

1. Prof. Arpita Sharma, DDU ,

2. Dr. Veena Ghuriani, Associate Professor, Maitreyi College
3. Ms. Surbhi Khanna, Associate Professor, Rajdhani College
4. Dr. Sheetal Rajpal, Dept. of Comp. Sc., Dyal Singh College