Course

10152211 Python for Developers
Course Information
Description
Teaches programming fundamentals using the Python language. The building blocks of a program, including variables, iteration and conditional statements, are introduced through the lens of how data is structured.   Functions, modules and classes allow students to develop increasingly complex solutions to data-focused problems.
Total Credits
3
Prior Learning Assessment
  • Exam-College Developed Challenge Exam
Course Competencies (Course Outcomes)
  1. Identify and use the correct data types to solve programming problems

  2. Assign and retrieve values to and from variables

  3. Solve programming problems with lists, including adding, retrieving and removing elements and sorting lists

  4. Create and use tuples

  5. Use if statements and if/else blocks

  6. Nest blocks of code appropriately

  7. Solve programming problems with dictionaries by adding and retrieving keys and values

  8. Loop through lists, range iterators, dictionary keys and values

  9. Retrieve input from the user

  10. Use functions to solve programming problems, by defining and calling functions, with and without parameters and with and without return values

  11. Define and use classes and object

This Outline is under development.