Units	Content	Total Hrs	% Weightage
Unit 1	Introduction to Python The basic elements of python Branching Programs Control Structures Strings and Input Iteration	4	7%
Unit 2	Functions, Scoping and Abstraction Functions and scoping Specifications Recursion Global variables Modules, Files System Functions and Parameters	5	10%
Unit 3	Structured Types, Mutability and Higher-Order Functions Strings, Tuples, Lists and Dictionaries Lists and Mutability Functions as Objects	4	8%
Unit 4	Testing, Debugging, Exceptions and Assertions Types of testing : Black box and Glass box Debugging, Handling Exceptions, Assertions	4	7%
Unit 5	Classes and Object-Oriented Programming Abstract Data Types and Classes Inheritance Encapsulation and Information Hiding	4	8%
Unit 6	Simple Algorithms and Data structures Search Algorithms Sorting Algorithms Hash Tables	5	10%
Unit 7	Advanced Topics I Regular Expressions – REs and Python Plotting using PyLab Networking and Multithreaded Programming Sockets,Threads and Processes, Chat Application	10	20%
Unit 8	Advance Topics II Security – Encryption and Decryption Classical Cyphers Graphics and GUI Programming Drawing using Turtle, Tkinter and Python Other GUIs	12	30%

Title	Author	Publication	Link
Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python	John V Guttag	Prentice Hall of India	–
Core Python Programming	R. Nageswara Rao	dreamtech	–
Core Python Programming – Second Edition	Wesley J. Chun	Prentice Hall	–
Data Structures and Algorithms in Pyhon	Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Michael H. Goldwasser	Wiley	–
Fundamentals of Python – First Programs	Kenneth A. Lambert	CENGAGE	–
Professional Python	Luke Sneeringer	Wrox	–
Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python	Al Sweigart	–	Link

Python Programming (2180711) – GTU Syllabus and Previous Year Question Paper

Python Programming – GTU Syllabus