B.Sc. (Computer Science) Introduction to Programming with Python Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the FY BSc Computer Science syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2024-25. The University still sets the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it — her Summer 2026 third-year timetables name that scheme — so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Introduction to Programming with Python
MU’s syllabus for this subject heads both of its modules “Module (30 hours):”, without a number. Her own paper pattern for the same subject numbers them Module 1 and Module 2, and they are shown here in that order.
Module I
- Overview and Basic Elements of Python Programming: Features of Python, Execution of a Python Program, Flavours of Python, Innards of Python, Python Interpreter, Comments, Docstrings, IDLE, Data types, Dictionary, Sets, Mapping, Basic Elements of Python, Variables, Input Function, Output Statements, Command Line Arguments. Operators, Precedence of Operators, Associativity of Operators Control Statements: The if statement, The if … else Statement, The if … elif … else Statement, Loop Statement- while loop, for loop, Infinite loop, Nested loop, The else suite, break statement, continue statement, pass statement, assert statement, return statement.
- Arrays: Creating Arrays, Indexing and Slicing of Arrays, Basic Array Operations, Arrays Processing, Mathematical Operations on Array, Aliasing Arrays, Slicing and Indexing in NumPy Arrays, Basic slicing, Advanced Indexing, Dimensions and Attributes of an Array
- Functions: Function definition and call, Returning Results, Returning Multiple Values from a Function, Built-in Functions, Difference between a Function and a Method, Pass Value by Object Reference, Parameters and Arguments, Recursive Functions, Anonymous or Lambda Functions. Modules in Python.
- Strings: Creating Strings, Functions of Strings, Working with Strings, Formatting Strings, Finding the Number of Characters and Words, Inserting Substrings into a String.
Module II
- Exploring List, Tuples and Dictionaries: Lists, List Functions and Methods, List Operations, List Slices, Nested Lists, Tuples, Functions in Tuple.
- Working with Dictionaries: Creating a Dictionary, Operators in Dictionary, Dictionary Methods, Using for Loop with Dictionaries, Operations on Dictionaries
- Files in Python: Opening and Closing a File, Working with Text Files, , Working with Binary Files, The ‘with’ statement, Pickle in Python, The seek() and tell()
- Methods, Random Accessing of Binary Files, Zipping and Unzipping Files, Working with Directories
- Regular Expressions: Introduction, Sequence Characters in Regular Expressions, Special Characters in Regular Expressions, Using Regular Expression on Files, Retrieving Information from an HTML File
- Date And Time in Python: Time, Date, Date and Time Now, combining date and times, formatting date and time, Finding and comparing dates, Sorting dates, Knowing the Time taken by a Program, Working with Calendar Module
Text Books
- 1 Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python 3, Paul Gries , Jennifer Campbell, Jason Montojo, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2nd Edition, 2014
- 2 Programming through Python, M. T Savaliya, R. K. Maurya & G M Magar, Sybgen Learning India, 2020
- 1 Python: The Complete Reference, Martin C. Brown, McGraw Hill, 2018
- 2 Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, Magnus Lie Hetland, Apress, 2017
- 3 Programming in Python 3, Mark Summerfield, Pearson Education, 2nd Ed, 2018
- 4 Python Programming: Using Problem Solving Approach, ReemaThareja, Oxford Univeristy Press, 2017
- 5 Let Us Python, Yashwant. B. Kanetkar, BPB Publication, 2019
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Computer Science) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.