INT102 - Python

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 Engineers in the room!!!

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 Paradigmatic shift

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 Paradigmatic shift

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 Paradigmatic shift

Computation

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 This course
… Will prepare you to build FUTURE

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 Assessment Rubrics
• L- T- P : 0-0-4 [1+3]
• Marks Weightage:
–Attendance: 05
–Continuous Assessment* (CA): 25
–Mid Term Exam (MTE): 20
–End Term Exam (ETE) : 50

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 Augmentation
• MEC201 – Solid Mechanics
• CIV207 – Strength of Materials

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 This course

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 Brain-Teaser: 0.1

Q. Your programming readiness check:

A. Python
B. Programing language other than Python
C. No experience of programing till now

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 Why a Programming Language..?

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 Thoughts

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 Actions

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 Action & Expression

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 Action & Expression

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 Action & Expression

Means = Language

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 Language
• Natural
– People speak and converse in
– Evolved naturally

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 Language
• Natural
– People speak and converse in
– Evolved naturally
• Formal
– Designed by people for specific purpose
– 3 + 29
– H2O

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 Language – Beyond expression
• Talking to a computer system
• Getting legible results
• Representing results
• Actions

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 Language – Beyond expression
• Programing language is formal language
devised to express computation

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 Which Language ..?
• Programing language is formal language
devised to express computation
• Alphabets a computer can understand:
0 and 1
• Your laptop:
– 32-bit or 64-bit..?
• Your smartphone:
– 32-bit or 64-bit..?

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 Which Language ..?
• Lower Level v/s Higher Level:

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 Why Higher Level Language ..?
• Lower Level v/s Higher Level:

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 Why Higher Level Language ..?

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 Programming languages

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 Why Python?

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 Why Python?
• Simple
• Simple and minimalistic due to Pseudo-code nature
• Easy to learn
• Structure and syntax are pretty intuitive and easy to grasp
• Free and Open source
• Downloading and installing Python is free and easy
• Source code is easily accessible
• Easy to use as Interpreted
• Rapid turnaround: no intermediate compile and link steps as in C or
C++
• Python programs are compiled automatically to an intermediate form
called bytecode, which the interpreter then reads
• This gives Python the development speed of an interpreter without the
performance loss inherent in purely interpreted languages

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 Why Python?
• Object-oriented
• Structure supports such concepts as polymorphism, operation
overloading, and multiple inheritance
• Portable
• Python runs virtually every major platform used today
• As long as you have a compatible Python interpreter installed
• Extensible & Mixable
• Python can be linked to components written in other languages easily
• Linking to fast, compiled code is useful to computationally
intensive problems
• Python is good for code steering and for merging multiple
programs in otherwise conflicting languages
• Python/C integration is quite common

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 Why Python?
• Embeddable
• Python can be embedded within C/C++ to give scripting capabilities
• Powerful
• Dynamic typing
• Built-in types and tools
• Library utilities
• Third party utilities (e.g. Numeric, NumPy, SciPy)
• Automatic memory management

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 Why Python?
… Both Simple and Powerful simultaneously..!

… Right combination of both Features and

Performance..!

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 Why Python as an Engineer..?
• Embedded Applications
• Building embedded C software applications with Python is easy as it is
a programming language that is based on the C language.
• Raspberry Pi is a well-known embedded application that uses Python
for performing elaborate high-level computations.
• In general, Computing high-level applications on smaller devices is
relatively easy with Python
• AI/ML Libraries for Robotics
• Reinforcement Learning - OpenAI
• ML – Scikit-learn
• DL - Tensorflow
• Image Processing - OpenCV
• ROS (Robotic Operating System)
• Fastest and easiest way to learn ROS is by using Python, though ROS
can be programmed both in C and Python
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 Other Applications of Python
• Web development
• Game development
• Data science, Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Desktop GUI
• Web scraping applications
• Building enterprise-level applications
• Image processing and graphic designing applications
• CAD applications
• Audio and video applications

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 Why Python?

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 Resources to watch out
https://www.python.org
Documentation, tutorials, beginners guide.
https://stackoverflow.com/
Dredging answers to all your code queries
http://wiki.python.org/main/PythonBooks
Finding the best books for Python
https://www.codecademy.com
The best beginners tutorial
https://www.python.org/downloads/
Download Python
https://www.continuum.io/downloads
Anaconda platform download
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 Resources to watch out
https://www.python.org
Documentation, tutorials, beginners guide.
https://stackoverflow.com/
Dredging answers to all your code queries
http://wiki.python.org/main/PythonBooks
Finding the best books for Python
https://www.codecademy.com
The best beginners tutorial
https://www.python.org/downloads/
Download Python
https://www.continuum.io/downloads
Anaconda platform download
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 Course Pedagogy
• Let us learn TOGETHER
• Participate
• Code on your own - Truthfulness
• Classroom → Assignments, Video
watch HOMEWORK → Classroom →
• Minor, Major Projects - Credited
• SUPER 5
• Create problem statements & build
solutions
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 Google Colaboratory
• All the coding tasks in the course
would be done on your uniquely
created Google Colab

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 Course anatomy
• Unit #1
– Introduction : python programming language, introduction to program and
debugging, formal and natural language
– Variables, Expression, and Statements : Values, variables, Variables name
and keywords, statements, operators and operand, order of operations,
operations on string, composition and comments
– Conditionals and Iteration : modulus operator, boolean expressions, logic
operators, conditional, alternative execution, nested conditionals and
return statements, while statements, encapsulation and generalization

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 Course anatomy
• Unit #2
– Functions and recursion : function calls, type conversion and coercion,
math functions, adding new function, parameters and argument, recursion
and its use
– String and Regular Expressions : string a compound data type, length,
string traversal, string slices, comparison, find function, looping and
counting

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 Course anatomy
• Unit #3
– Lists : list values, length, membership, operations, slices, deletion, accessing
elements, list and for loops, list parameters and nested list
– Tuples and Dictionaries : mutability and tuples, tuple assignment, tuple as
return values, random numbers and list of random numbers, counting and
many buckets, dictionaries operations and methods, sparse matrices,
aliasing and coping

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 Course anatomy
• Unit #4
– Creating and Manipulating Numerical Data: Arrays, Creating Arrays, Basic
Data Types, Indexing and Slicing, Copies and Views, Numerical Operations
on Array

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 Course anatomy
• Unit #5
• Data Exploration and Analysis :
• Understanding Series Objects, Creating a Series,
Accessing Data from a Series, Exploring and
Analyzing a Series, Operations on a Series,
• Understanding Data Frame Objects, Creating a
Data Frame from List, Dictionary and series,
Creating a Data Frame from Excel Spreadsheets
and CSV files, Dealing With Null Values and
Missing Values in Datasets, Updating and
Accessing a Data Frame, Exploring and Analyzing
a Data Frame, Statistical Data Analysis

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 Course anatomy
• Unit #6
– Data Visualization :
Drawing a Basic plot, Drawing multiple lines and
plots, Subplot Function, Drawing Bar Graph,
Drawing Pie Chart, Drawing Histogram, Drawing
Box and Scatter Plot, Sine wave Plot , Plotting
Graph from File using Pandas.

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 Quick review
• Is the pace of delivery comfortable?
• Yes
• No

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 Quick review
• Is the language of delivery comfortable?
• Yes
• No

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 Tasks@HOME
• Download and install Python*
• Download and install Python through
Anaconda*
• Create Google colab account
• Download your syllabus and IP
• Download a free book: ‘A Byte of Python’
• Video Watch: INT102-1 and INT102-2
• Create GitHub A/c

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 Tomorrow
Action!!! Python snakes IN…

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