UNIT 1:
Introduction to Python Programming History of Python Programming Language, thrust areas of Python in physics, Integrated Development Environments, installation and use of python distribution: Anaconda, Spyder, Jupiter notebooks. Fundamental programming with Python – Designing a Program, identifiers, keywords, operators, and expressions. Arithmetic, Logical and Assignment operators, Precedence, Data types: Basic data types: Strings and numbers, displaying an output, type conversion, basic string operations& methods, format specifiers.
Unit 2:
Tuples, Lists & DictionariesTuples: immutable sequences, creating tuple, basic tuple operations. Lists: mutable sequences, basic list operations, List methods Dictionaries: basic dictionary operations, dictionary method User input variable.
Unit 3:
Control structures Decision Structures: If, If —-else, if .elif..else, nested if decision flow statements. Repetition Structures: condition controlled: while loop. Count controlled: for loop, sentinals, continue and break statements, try and except statements
Unit 4:
Functions & Files Built in function, modules, void function, flow charting, hierarchy charts, Local variables and scope, passing an argument function, value returning functions, Random number generation Files: introduction to file input and output
Unit 5:
Scientific computing packages Numpy: -Array object, creating array, matrix, indexing, slicing, resizing, reshaping, arithmetic operations, functions, matrices and vector operations Matplotlib: basic plotting, Scipy: Linear algebra operations, equation solving.