Computer Sciences program

CS 101

Entry requirements:

Entering grade 7

List of Topics of CS 101:

• Python editor, running code, working with files.
• Operators: Arithmetic, Comparison, Logical, Membership.
• Basic variable types. Type conversion.
• Python variables, objects, and variable names as references to objects.
• Printing and f-strings. Input() and its applications.
• Error handling.
• Definite and indefinite Iteration.
• Conditional statements: if else, if elif else.
• Lists and list operations.
• Copy and deep copy.
• Iterable objects: tuples, sets, and dictionaries. Iterable objects’ methods.
• Nested data structures.
• User defined functions and different types of arguments.
• Nested functions. Local and global variables.
• Anonymous lambda functions; map() and filter() functions.
• List comprehension.
• Random number generation.
• Object-oriented programming introduction and terminology.
• Polymorphism. Inheritance.
• Working with os module. Creating user modules.
• Opening and reading data from text files. Writing text to files. Appending text to files.
• Working with text.
• Numerical Python (NumPy). Array properties. Indexing values.
• Basic operations with arrays: creation, reshaping, manipulation, stacking, element-wise math.
• matplotlib. Creating a simple bar chart for two data series.
• Using numpy to store, record, and retrieve data.

CS 202

Entry requirements:

Entering grades 7 - 9

List of Topics of CS 202:

• Object oriented programming, advanced concepts and techniques.
• Code and performance optimization.
• Programming basic graphics and user interface.
• Introduction to PyGame.
• Numerical and scientific Python applications (numpy and scipy).
• Visualizations in Python (matplotlib).
• Working with data and basic data analysis (pandas).
• Machine leaning (scikit-learn).
• Introduction to networks and graphs (networkx).
• Introduction to databased management (SQLite)
• Introduction to web development.
• Software development version control, GitHub.
• Optional topics include:
• Python C extensions (cython).
• Multiprocessing.
• GPU accelerated computing.