PCAP™ | Certified Associate in Python Programming certification | Certification Material

Before you start, get yourself equipped with the following material and software:

• Download Python and install it for the execution of Python codes

• Download Anaconda and install it for the execution of Python codes

• Online Google Colab for the execution of Python code. 

• Download Thony  and install it for debugging the code step by step.

• The additional course material and certification can be done on Python for Everybody website.

• You can download the Book here - Python for Everybody 

• Python Certification Link for PCAP

• All the codes of the following 5 days can be accessed on my Kaggle.

Course Outline Python 3 

• Variables, expressions, and statements

• Conditional Execution

• Functions

• Loops and Iterations

• Strings

• Files

• Lists

• Dictionaries

• Tuples

• Regular Expressions

• Network Programming

• Using Web Services

• Object Oriented Programming

• Databases

• Data Visualization

Day 01 PCAP-Certification By (Dr.) Mirza Touseef 

VIDEO RECORDINGS OF WEEK-1 LECTURES IS AVAILABLE HERE 

• Day 01 (Saturday, August 19, 2023) following Topics are covered along with their Python code Click Here to access the Lecture slides and Notebook codes 

  • Installing Python, Jupyter lab

  • Activity 1- Installing IDE

  • Values and types of data

  • Variable Operation rules

  • Activity-2 

  • Priority of Operations

  • Modulus Operator

  • Remainder Operator

  • Strings Operation

  • Repetition by multiplication of string with a digit

  • Asking the user for input

  • Escape Sequence

  • Conversion of Data types

  • Comments

  • Choosing the Mnemonics variable name

  • Debugging

  • Activity-3

  • Conditional Execution: Boolean Expressions

  • Logical Operators AND, OR, NOR

  • Conditional Execution

  • Chained Conditionals

  • Nested Conditionals

  • Catching Exceptions using TRY and EXCEPT

  • Short-Circuit Evaluation of Logical Expressions

  • Activity 4: Write a program to prompt for a score between 0.0 and 1.0. 

  • Activity -5: Write a program to prompt the user for hours and rate per hour using the input to compute the gross pay. pay the hourly rate for hours up to 40 and 1.5 times the hourly rate for all hours worked above 40 hours. Use 45 hours and a rate of 10.50 per hour to test the program (the pay should be 498.75) You should use the input to read a string and float () to convert the string to a number. Do not worry about the error checking the user input - assume the user types the number properly

Day 02 PCAP-Certification By (Dr.) Mirza Touseef 

• Day 02 (Sunday, August 20, 2023) following Topics are covered along with their Python code Click Here to access the Lecture slides and Notebook codes 

• Remaining topics from day_1 slides_59~80

  • Type conversion function

  • Math function/library/Module

  • Alias

  • Importing library-specific function (dot) notation import 

  • Importing with from function 

  • Range function

  • Random Numbers (Random Module)

  • Activity -6

  • randint (start, end range) function

  • choice (a) function

  • List of different data types

  • Rules to Create a Function

  • Activity-7

  • The flow of execution for functions

  • Parameters of function

  • Passing arguments in the function

  • Parameters and Arguments

  • Fruitful functions (Returns values)

  • Void Function (Not Return anything)

  • Saving returned values to different variables

  • Assigning returned values to a tuple

  • Activity 8: Compute pay by defining a function computepay() that return values

  • Quiz#1 : function called computegrade that takes a score as its parameter and returns a grade as a string. • Score Grade • > 0.9 A • > 0.8 B • > 0.7 C • > 0.6 D • <= 0.6 F

  • Iteration

  • Memory Location is assigned differently each time variable is updated

  • Updating Variables

  • The while Statement

  • Infinite Loops

  • Break Statement

  • Finishing iterations with the "continue" statement

  • Definite loops: For Loop

  • Counting and Summing Loops

  • Maximum and Minimum Loops

  • Activity 9.1

  • Activity 9.2

  • Strings

  • String Index

  • Getting the length of functions with the len function

  • Adding new functions

Day 03 PCAP-Certification By (Dr.) Mirza Touseef

Day 03 (Friday, August 25, 2023) following Topics are covered along with their Python code Click Here to access the Lecture slides and Notebook codes

Day 04 PCAP-Certification By (Dr.) Mirza Touseef 

Day 04 (Saturday, August 26, 2023) following Topics are covered along with their Python code Click Here to access the Lecture slides and Notebook codes 

• List arguments

• Activity 14: Write a function called chop that takes a list and modifies it, removing the first and last elements, and returns None

• Tuples

• Creating a Tuple

• Create tuples without using parentheses

• Access Tuple Elements

• Tuple Negative Indexing

• Tuple Slicing

• Tuple Methods

• Iterating through a Tuple

• Objects and values

• Aliasing

• Dictionaries

• Creating and Manipulating Dictionaries

• Write a program that prompt the name, age, education, experience and stores in the dictionary

Day 05 PCAP-Certification By (Dr.) Mirza Touseef 

Day 05 (Sunday, August 27, 2023) following Topics are covered along with their Python code Click Here to access the Lecture slides and Notebook codes