Python Level 1 Course Material

Class Material and Notes

Class Notes , Class Project

Introduction to Python

• print() and input() functions
• Escape Characters

Independent Activity

Activity and Marking Criteria
Bonus Ideas

Create a REPL (python) which asks user’s name, greets him/her, writes the greeting in at least one imaginative manner and also creates a letter art. 

Enhancements

Animated Prints, Hello world in patterns, color text/background with colorama, Art patterns with pyfiglet

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Class Material and Notes

Class Notes
Class Project

Key Learning Objectives

1. Basic Python datatypes — Floats, Integers, strings
2. Datetime Module
3. Basic List operations
4. if-else condition

Independent Activity

Activity and Marking Criteria
Bonus Ideas

Create a REPL (python) which asks the user to enter his/her birthday and then tells when the next birthday will come.

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Class Material and Notes

Class Notes
Class Project

Key Learning Objectives

1. % and // Operators
2. while loop
3. time module

Independent Activity

Activity and Marking Criteria
Bonus Ideas

Complete the REPL from the Birthday Countdown Part 1 by creating a countdown towards the player’s next birthday.

Enhancements

graceful exit after invalid inputs, birth date in future, User Age, Weekdays of all birthdays, string methods for extracting details of timedelta, 29 Feb

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Class Videos

1. Introduction
2. String Methods: lower() etc.
3. How to use the if-else statement
4. String length and count() method
5. if-elif-else statement
6. startswith, endswith methods: Closer look at indentation
7. find() and related method for strings: String Indexing
8. Prof’s Grumpy Assistant gives Appointment Slots

List of useful string methods (Try exploring these)

Class Material and Notes

Class Notes
Class Project

Key Learning Objectives

1. if … else
2. if … elif … else
3. string operations

Bonus Videos

1. Remove trailing and leading spaces from the user response
2. How to analyze sentences
3. How to determine unique letters (words) in a word (sentence)?
4. How to determine if a word (or sentence) is a palindrome?
5. Creating randomness in the questions asked using random.randint()
6. Determining how long the user took to respond

Independent Activity

Activity and Marking Criteria
Bonus Ideas

Create a REPL (python) which acts like the Grumpy prof’s assistant, similar to the class project, but with creative elements added by the students.

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Class Material (Live Quiz)

Key Learning Objectives

1. Revise the concepts covered so far with an interactive quiz.  
2. Provide students a chance to consolidate their learning and build an independent project of their choice.

Independent Activity

Activity and Marking Criteria

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Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

Key Learning Objectives

1. Importing modules in Python. 
2. Some interesting turtle operations
   1. Movement related. 
   2. Drawing related. 
3. How we can get turtle to draw attractive shapes

Independent Activity

Activity and Marking Criteria

Create a REPL (python, with turtle) which draws an attractive and colorful drawing using basic geometric shapes.

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Class Material and Notes

Class Notes , Class Project

Key Learning Objectives

1. Defining and using functions in Python 
2. Range function
3. For loop

Independent Activity

Activity and Marking Criteria

Create a REPL (python, with turtle) which draws an attractive and colorful pixel art using programming logic.

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Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

1. Working with Lists
2. While Loop
3. Data Types

Independent Activity

Activity and Marking Criteria

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