The Joy of Computing using Python

By Prof. Sudarshan Iyengar, Prof. Yayati Gupta | IIT Ropar

Learners enrolled: 31096

A fun filled whirlwind tour of 30 hrs, covering everything you need to know to fall in love with the most sought after skill of the 21st century. The course brings programming to your desk with anecdotes, analogies and illustrious examples. Turning abstractions to insights and engineering to art, the course focuses primarily to inspire the learner's mind to think logically and arrive at a solution programmatically. As part of the course, you will be learning how to practice and culture the art of programming with Python as a language. At the end of the course, we introduce some of the current advances in computing to motivate the enthusiastic learner to pursue further directions.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Any interested audience
PREREQUISITES : 10th standard/high school
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Every software company is aware of the potential of a first course in computer science. Especially of a first course in computing, done right.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Computer Science and Engineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	18 Jan 2021
End Date :	09 Apr 2021
Enrollment Ends :	01 Feb 2021
Exam Date :	24 Apr 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

Page Visits

Course layout

Motivation for Computing
Welcome to Programming!!
Variables and Expressions : Design your own calculator
Loops and Conditionals : Hopscotch once again
Lists, Tuples and Conditionals : Lets go on a trip
Abstraction Everywhere : Apps in your phone
Counting Candies : Crowd to the rescue
Birthday Paradox : Find your twin
Google Translate : Speak in any Language
Currency Converter : Count your foreign trip expenses
Monte Hall : 3 doors and a twist
Sorting : Arrange the books
Searching : Find in seconds
Substitution Cipher : What’s the secret !!
Sentiment Analysis : Analyse your Facebook data
20 questions game : I can read your mind
Permutations : Jumbled Words
Spot the similarities : Dobble game
Count the words : Hundreds, Thousands or Millions.
Rock, Paper and Scissor : Cheating not allowed !!
Lie detector : No lies, only TRUTH
Calculation of the Area : Don’t measure.
Six degrees of separation : Meet your favourites
Image Processing : Fun with images
Tic tac toe : Let’s play
Snakes and Ladders : Down the memory lane.
Recursion : Tower of Hanoi
Page Rank : How Google Works !!

Books and references

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Instructor bio

Prof. Sudarshan Iyengar

IIT Ropar

Sudarshan Iyengar has a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science and is currently working as an assistant professor at IIT Ropar and has been teaching this course from the past 4 years.

Prof. Yayati Gupta

Dr. Yayati Gupta is an assistant professor at IIIT Dharwad, Hubli. She completed her PhD from IIT Ropar in 2017 after which she did two postdocs at IIT Madras and IIT Delhi respectively. Her areas of interest include complex networks and social network analysis

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 24 April 2021 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

This course will have an unproctored programming exam also apart from the Proctored exam whose, please check announcement section for dtae and time (DATE is YET TO ANNOUNCE). The programming exam will have a weightage of 25% towards the Final score.

Final score = Assignment score + Unproctored programming exam score + Proctored Exam score

Assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
( All assignments in a particular week will be counted towards final scoring - quizzes and programming assignments).
Unproctored programming exam score = 25% of the average scores obtained as part of Unproctored programming exam - out of 100
Proctored Exam score =50% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND
UNPROCTORED PROGRAMMING EXAM SCORE >=10/25 AND PROCTORED EXAM SCORE >= 20/50.

If any one of the 3 criteria is not met, you will not be eligible for the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

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