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Python Application Programing-18EC646

Introduction to Python Programming
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Course Overview
• The Syllabus is framed to get to doing data analysis problems as quickly as possible
and have a series of running examples and exercises about data analysis from the
very beginning.
• Number-oriented examples and exercises have been explained with data oriented
exercises.
• Topics are presented in the order needed to build increasingly sophisticated data
analysis solutions.
• The material is focusing on real-world uses and simple examples of Python for data
analysis including regular expressions for searching and parsing, automating tasks
on your computer, retrieving data across the network, scraping web pages for data,
object-oriented programming, using web services, parsing XML and JSON data,
creating and using databases using Structured Query Language, and visualizing data.
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Course Overview-History of Python

• Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby,
Scheme, or Java.
• Python is a high-level, interpreted scripting language developed in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum
at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands.
• The initial version was published at the alt.sources newsgroup in 1991, and version 1.0 was released in
1994.
• Python 2.0 was released in 2000, and the 2.x versions were the prevalent releases until December 2008.
• At that time, the development team made the decision to release version 3.0, which contained a few
relatively small but significant changes that were not backward compatible with the 2.x versions.
• Python 2 and 3 are very similar, and some features of Python 3 have been back ported to Python 2. But
in general, they remain not quite compatible.
• The name Python, by the way, derives not from the snake, but from the British comedy troupe Monty
Python’s Flying Circus, of which Guido was, and presumably still is, a fan.
• (Source: https://realpython.com/python-introduction/)
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Some of Python's notable features

• Uses an elegant syntax, making the programs you write easier to read.
• Is an easy-to-use language that makes it simple to get your program working.
• Comes with a large standard library that supports many common
programming tasks such as connecting to web servers, searching text with
regular expressions, reading and modifying files.
• Python's interactive mode makes it easy to test short snippets of code.
There's also a bundled development environment called IDLE.
• Is easily extended by adding new modules implemented in a compiled
language such as C or C++.
(Source: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Overview)
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Some of Python's notable features

• Can also be embedded into an application to provide a
programmable interface.
• Runs anywhere, including Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Unix, with
unofficial builds also available for Android and iOS.
• Is free software in two senses. It doesn't cost anything to download
or use Python, or to include it in your application.
• Python can also be freely modified and re-distributed, because while
the language is copyrighted it's available under an open source
license.
(Source: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Overview)
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Some programming-language features:

• A variety of basic data types are available: numbers (floating point, complex, and unlimited-
length long integers), strings (both ASCII and Unicode), lists, and dictionaries.
• Python supports object-oriented programming with classes and multiple inheritance.
• Code can be grouped into modules and packages.
• The language supports raising and catching exceptions, resulting in cleaner error handling.
• Data types are strongly and dynamically typed. Mixing incompatible types (e.g. attempting to
add a string and a number) causes an exception to be raised, so errors are caught sooner.
• Python contains advanced programming features such as generators and list
comprehensions.
• Python's automatic memory management frees you from having to manually allocate and
free memory in your code.
Source: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Overview
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Course Duration
Subject code : 18EC646 IA Marks : 40

No. of Lecture Hours/Week : 03 Exam Hours : 03

Total No. of Lecture Hours : 40 Exam Marks : 60

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Course Syllabus
Module 1 : Why should you learn to write programs, Variables, expressions, and statements, Conditional execution,
Functions.  
Module 2 : Iterations, Strings, Files  
Module 3 : Lists, Dictionaries, Tuples, Regular expressions  
Module 4 : Classes and objects, Classes and Functions, Classes and methods  
Module 5 : Networked programs, Using Web Services, Using Databases and SQL  
References
Text book:
1)  Charles R. Severance, “Python for Everybody: Exploring Data Using Python 3”, 1 st Create space Independent publishing
format 2016(Chapter 1-13, 15).
2) Allen B Downey, “Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist”, 2nd Edition, Green Tea Press 2015(Chapter 15,
16, 17).
Reference Book:
3) Marks Lutz, “Programming Python”, 4th Edition O’Reilly Media 2011, ISBN 13:978-9350232873
4) Wesly J Chun, “Core Python Application Programing”, 3 rd Edition, Pearson Education India 2015. ISBN-13:978-
9332555365.
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Course Objectives
This course will enable students to
 Learn syntax and semantics and create function in Python
 Handling strings and Files in Python
 Understand Lists, Dictionaries and Regular Expressions in Python
 Implement Object –Oriented Programming in Python
 Build Web Services Network and Database programs in Python
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Course Outcomes
After studying this course, students will be able to:
Examine Python syntax and semantics and be fluent in the use of Python flow control and
functions.
Demonstrate proficiency in handling strings and File Systems
Create, run and manipulate Python Programs using core data structures like Lists, Dictionaries
and use Regular Expressions
Interpret the concepts of Object Oriented Programming as used in Python
Implement exemplary applications related to Network Programming, Web Services and
Databases in Python
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Course Policy
 There will be 3 tests
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First test will cover the first 2 Modules
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Second will cover the next 1.5 Modules
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Third will cover the remaining 1.5 Modules
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Each Test is for 30 marks
 There will be assignments (Collaborative Learning) on each unit. Five Assignment. Each carries
10 marks
 Average of all three Test plus the average of all five assignment is considered for the Final
internal marks

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Real-world Applications of Python

• Web Development
• Game Development
• Scientific and Numeric Applications
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Image Processing and Graphic Design Applications:
•  Speech Processing Application
• Desktop GUI
• Software Development
• Enterprise-level/Business Applications

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Top Companies using Python

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Module 1
• Topic 1: Why should you learn to write programs
• Topic 2: Variables, expressions and statements
• Topic 3: Conditional execution
• Topic 4: Functions
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Topic 1 : Why should you learn to write programs

1.1 Creativity and motivation
1.2 Computer hardware architecture
1.3 Understanding programming
1.4 Words and sentences
1.5 Conversing with Python
1.6 Terminology: interpreter and compiler
1.7 Writing a program
1.8 What is a program?
1.9 The building blocks of programs
1.10 What could possibly go wrong?
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Why should
• Writing you (or
programs learn to write programs?
programming) is a very creative and rewarding activity. You can write programs
for many reasons, ranging from making your living to solving a difficult data analysis problem to
having fun to helping someone else solve a problem.
• We are surrounded in our daily lives with computers ranging from laptops to cell phones. We can
think of these computers as our “personal assistants” who can take care of many things on our
behalf.
• Programmers add an operating system and a set of applications to the hardware and we end up with
a Personal Digital Assistant that is quite helpful and capable of helping us do many different things.
• Our computers are fast and have vast amounts of memory and could be very helpful to us if we only
knew the language to speak to explain to the computer what we would like it to “do next”. If we
knew this language, we could tell the computer to do tasks on our behalf that were repetitive.
Interestingly, the kinds of things computers can do best are often the kinds of things that we humans
find boring and mind-numbing.
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1.1 Creativity
• Building and
useful, motivation
elegant, and clever programs for others to use is a very creative activity. Your
computer or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) usually contains many different programs from
many different groups of programmers, each competing for your attention and interest.
• They try their best to meet your needs and give you a great user experience in the process.
In some situations, when you choose a piece of software, the programmers are directly
compensated because of your choice.
• For now, our primary motivation is not to make money or please end users, but instead for
us to be more productive in handling the data and information that we will encounter in our
lives. When you first start, you will be both the programmer and the end user of your
programs. As you gain skill as a programmer and programming feels more creative to you,
your thoughts may turn toward developing programs for others.
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1.2 Computer hardware architecture

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1.2 Computer hardware architecture

• The Central Processing Unit (or CPU) is the part of the computer that is built to be obsessed with
“what is next?” If your computer is rated at 3.0 Gigahertz, it means that the CPU will ask “What next?”
three billion times per second. You are going to have to learn how to talk fast to keep up with the CPU.
• The Main Memory is used to store information that the CPU needs in a hurry. The main memory is
nearly as fast as the CPU. But the information stored in the main memory vanishes when the computer
is turned off.
• The Secondary Memory is also used to store information, but it is much slower than the main memory.
The advantage of the secondary memory is that it can store information even when there is no power
to the computer. Examples of secondary memory are disk drives or flash memory (typically found in
USB sticks and portable music players).
• The Input and Output Devices are simply our screen, keyboard, mouse, microphone, speaker,
touchpad, etc. They are all of the ways we interact with the computer.
• These days, most computers also have a Network Connection to retrieve information over a network.
We can think of the network as a very slow place to store and retrieve data that might not always be
“up”. So in a sense, the network is a slower and at times unreliable form of Secondary Memory.
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1.3 Understanding programming

Need two skills to be a programmer:
• First, you need to know the programming language (Python) - you need to know the
vocabulary and the grammar. You need to be able to spell the words in this new language
properly and know how to construct well-formed “sentences” in this new language.
• Second, you need to “tell a story”. In writing a story, you combine words and sentences to
convey an idea to the reader. There is a skill and art in constructing the story, and skill in
story writing is improved by doing some writing and getting some feedback. In programming,
our program is the “story” and the problem you are trying to solve is the “idea”.
Once you learn one programming language such as Python, you will find it much easier to
learn a second programming language such as JavaScript or C++.
The new programming language has very different vocabulary and grammar but the problem-
solving skills will be the same across all programming languages.
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1.4 Words and sentences

Unlike human languages, the Python vocabulary is actually pretty small. We call this “vocabulary” the
“reserved words”. These are words that have very special meaning to Python. When Python sees these
words in a Python program, they have one and only one meaning to Python. Later as you write
programs you will make up your own words that have meaning to you called variables. You will have
great latitude in choosing your names for your variables, but you cannot use any of Python’s reserved
words as a name for a variable.
The reserved words in the language where humans talk to Python include the following:
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1.4 Words and sentences

First syntactically correct Python sentence
print('Hello world!')
The strings in the print statements are enclosed in quotes. Single quotes and double quotes do the
same thing; most people use single quotes except in cases like this where a single quote (which is also
an apostrophe) appears in the string.
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1.5 Conversing with Python

First install the Python software on your computer and learn how to start Python on your computer.

The >>> prompt is the Python interpreter’s way of asking you, “What do you want me to do next?”
Python is ready to have a conversation with you. All you have to know is how to speak the Python
language.
>>> I come in peace, please take me to your leader
File "", line 1
I come in peace, please take me to your leader
^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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1.5 Conversing with Python

>>> print('Hello world!')
Hello world!
This is looking much better, so you try to communicate some more:
>>> print('You must be the legendary god that comes from the sky')
You must be the legendary god that comes from the sky
>>> print('We have been waiting for you for a long time')
We have been waiting for you for a long time
>>> print('Our legend says you will be very tasty with mustard')
Our legend says you will be very tasty with mustard
>>> print 'We will have a feast tonight unless you say
File "", line 1
print 'We will have a feast tonight unless you say
^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
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1.5 Conversing with Python

>>> good-bye
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1
NameError: name 'good' is not defined
>>> if you don't mind, I need to leave
File "", line 1 if you don't mind, I need to leave
^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> quit()
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1.6 Terminology: Interpreter and compiler

• Python is a high-level language intended to be relatively
straightforward for humans to read and write and for computers to
read and process. The actual hardware inside the Central Processing
Unit (CPU) does not understand any of these high-level languages.
• The CPU understands a language called machine language.
• Since machine language is tied to the computer hardware, machine
language is not portable across different types of hardware.
• Programs written in high-level languages can be moved between different
computers by using a different interpreter on the new machine or recompiling the
code to create a machine language version of the program for the new machine.
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Interpreter and Compiler

Translator
• Allows programmers to write in high-level languages like Python or JavaScript and convert the
programs to machine language for actual execution by the CPU.
• These programming language translators fall into two general categories:
1. Interpreters and
2. Compilers.
1) Interpreter:
• An interpreter reads the source code of the program as written by the programmer, parses the
source code, and interprets the instructions on the fly.
• Python is an interpreter and when we are running Python interactively, we can type a line of Python
(a sentence) and Python processes it immediately and is ready for us to type another line of Python.
>>> x = 6
>>> print(x)
6
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Interpreter and Compiler

>>> y = x * 7
>>> print(y)
42
• Even though we are typing these commands into Python one line at a time, Python is treating
them as an ordered sequence of statements with later statements able to retrieve data
created in earlier statements.
• We are writing our first simple paragraph with four sentences in a logical and meaningful
order. It is the nature of an interpreter to be able to have an interactive conversation as
shown above.
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Interpreter and Compiler

2) Compiler:
• Compilers needs to be handed the entire program in a file, and then it runs a
process to translate the high-level source code into machine language and
then the compiler puts the resulting machine language into a file for later
execution.
• If you have a Windows system, often these executable machine language
programs have a suffix of “.exe” or “.dll” which stand for “executable” and
“dynamic link library” respectively. In Linux and Macintosh, there is no suffix
that uniquely marks a file as executable.
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Interpreter and Compiler

• The Python interpreter is written in a high-level language called
“C”.
• So Python is a program itself and it is compiled into machine
code. When you installed Python on your computer (or the
vendor installed it), you copied a machine-code copy of the
translated Python program onto your system. In Windows, the
executable machine code for Python itself is likely in a file with a
name like: C:\Python35\python.exe
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1.7 Writing a program

Typing commands into the Python interpreter is a great way to experiment with
Python’s features, but it is not recommended for solving more complex problems.
When we want to write a program, we use a text editor to write the Python
instructions into a file, which is called a script.
By convention, Python scripts have names that end with .py.
To execute the script, you have to tell the Python interpreter the name of the file.
In a command window, you would type python hello.py as follows:
$ cat hello.py
print('Hello world!')
$ python hello.py
Hello world!
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1.8 What is a program?

The definition of a program at its most basic is a sequence of
Python statements that have been crafted to do something. Even
our simple hello.py script is a program. It is a one-line program
and is not particularly useful, but in the strictest definition, it is a
Python program
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1.9 The building blocks of programs

The following are part of every programming language from machine language up to the high-
level languages.
 Input: Get data from the “outside world”. This might be reading data from a file, or even some
kind of sensor like a microphone or GPS. In our initial programs, our input will come from the
user typing data on the keyboard.
 Output: Display the results of the program on a screen or store them in a file or perhaps write
them to a device like a speaker to play music or speak text.
 Sequential execution: Perform statements one after another in the order they are
encountered in the script.
 Conditional execution: Check for certain conditions and then execute or skip a sequence of
statements.
 Repeated execution: Perform some set of statements repeatedly, usually with some variation.
 Reuse: Write a set of instructions once and give them a name and then reuse those
instructions as needed throughout your program.
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1.10 What could possibly go wrong?

General types of errors
• Syntax error: means that you have violated the “grammar” rules
of Python.
• Logic errors: A logic error is when your program has good syntax
but there is a mistake in the order of the statements or perhaps a
mistake in how the statements relate to one another
• Semantic errors: A semantic error is when your description of the
steps to take is syntactically perfect and in the right order, but
there is simply a mistake in the program. The program is perfectly
correct but it does not do what you intended for it to do.
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1.11 Debugging
reading Examine your code, read it back to yourself, and check that it says what
you meant to say.
running Experiment by making changes and running different versions. Often if
you display the right thing at the right place in the program, the problem
becomes obvious, but sometimes you have to spend some time to build
scaffolding.
ruminating Take some time to think! What kind of error is it: syntax, runtime,
semantic? What information can you get from the error messages, or from the
output of the program? What kind of error could cause the problem you’re
seeing? What did you change last, before the problem appeared?
retreating At some point, the best thing to do is back off, undoing recent
changes, until you get back to a program that works and that you understand.
Then you can start rebuilding.
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Exercises
Exercise 1: What is the function of the secondary memory in a
computer?
a) Execute all of the computation and logic of the program
b) Retrieve web pages over the Internet
c) Store information for the long term, even beyond a power
cycle
d) Take input from the user
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Exercises
Exercise 2: What is a program?
Exercise 3: What is the difference between a compiler and an interpreter?
Exercise 4: Which of the following contains “machine code”?
a) The Python interpreter
b) The keyboard
c) Python source file
d) A word processing document
Exercise 5: What is wrong with the following code:
>>> primt 'Hello world!'
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Exercises
Exercise 6: Where in the computer is a variable such as “x” stored after the following Python line finishes?
x = 123
a) Central processing unit
b) Main Memory
c) Secondary Memory
d) Input Devices
e) Output Devices
Exercise 7: What will the following program print out:
x = 43
x=x+1
print(x)
f) 43
g) 44
h) x+1
i) Error because x = x + 1 is not possible mathematically
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Exercises
Exercise 8: Explain each of the following using an example of a human capability:
(1) Central processing unit,
(2) Main Memory,
(3) Secondary Memory,
(4) Input Device, and
(5) Output Device.
For example, “What is the human equivalent to a Central Processing Unit”?
Exercise 9: How do you fix a “Syntax Error”?