Programming Skills

Python Fundamentals

6 topics

• Concepts of Interpreter based programming language, structure, indentation, execution
• Python Variables: naming, dynamic declaration, comments, multiple assignment, global variables
• Python Data types: Text(str), Numeric(int, float, complex), Boolean(bool)
• Type conversion and casting
• Operators: Arithmetic, Assignment, Comparison, Logical, Identity/Membership
• User defined function: defining, parameters, default values, return value

Conditions, Loops and Strings

6 topics

• if, if-elif, if-elif-else, nested if statements
• while loop, nested while loop, break, continue
• for loop, range, break, continue, pass, else with for, nested for loop
• Python Strings: multiline string, character array, triple quotes
• String operations: slicing, negative indexing, length, concatenation
• String methods: centre, count, join, len, max, min, replace, lower, upper, split

Python Collections

4 topics

• List: creating, indexing, accessing, range; methods (append, clear, copy, count, index, insert, pop, remove, reverse, sort)
• Tuple: declaring, indexing, changing values, adding/removing data, tuple() method, count(), index()
• Set: declaring, accessing; methods (add, clear, copy, discard, pop, remove, union, update)
• Dictionary: creating, adding, accessing, removing elements; methods (get(), pop(), popitem(), clear(), copy())

Python Libraries

7 topics

• Numpy overview: array(), arange(), linspace(), flatten(), reshape(), sum(), average(), min(), max()
• Statistical methods: Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation, Variance
• Implementation of Numpy methods on numeric dataset from list
• Pandas overview: Dataframe and Series
• Creating dataframe using list / dict of equal length lists
• Reading data using CSV file (read_csv())
• Retrieving rows/columns using index, loc and iloc functions

Previous-year question papers

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• September 2025Major - 1 - 204 : Programming Skills
• March 2025MAJOR-1-204 PROGRAMMING SKILLS (TH)
• March 2024MAJOR-1-PROGRAMMING SKILLS (TH)

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