Syllabus: Python & BioPython(Optional)
Introduction to Languages
	
What is Language?
	
Types of languages
	
Introduction to Translators
	
Compiler Interpreter
	
What is Scripting Language?
	
Types of Script Programming Languages v/s Scripting Languages
	
Difference between Scripting and Programming languages
	
What is programming Methods?
	
Procedural programming paradigm
	
Object Oriented Programming paradigm
Introduction to Python
	
What is Python?
	
WHY PYTHON?
	
Features
	
Why Python is General Language?
	
Limitations of Python
	
Python implementations
	
Python applications
	
Python versions
	
PYTHON IN REALTIME INDUSTRY
	
Difference between Python 2.x and 3.x
 Python Software 
	
Python Distributions
	
Download & Python Installation Process in Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac
	
Python Real-time IDEs like Spyder, Jupyter Note Book, PyCharm, MS VS Code, ATOM, Pycharm Pip
Python Language Fundamentals
	
Python Implementation Alternatives/Flavours
	
Keywords ,Identifiers ,Constants / Literals ,Data types ,Python Syntax
Useful facts and syntax in Python 
	
Interactive Mode
	
Scripting Mode
	
Programming Elements
	
Structure of Python program
	
First Python Application
	
Comments in Python
	
Python file extensions
	
Setting Path in Windows
	
Edit and Run python program without IDE
	
Edit and Run python program using IDEs
	
INSIDE PYTHON
	
Programmers View of Interpreter
	
What is Byte Code in PYTHON?
	
Python Debugger
Variables in Python
	
Data Type
	
String Formatting in Python
	
Introduction
	
Initialization of variables
	
Local variables
	
Global variables
	
Input and Output operations
	
Data conversion functions – int(), float(), complex(), str(), chr(), ord()
Operators in Python
	
Arithmetic Operators
	
Comparison Operators
	
Python Assignment Operators
	
Logical Operators
	
Bitwise Operators
	
Shift operators
	
Membership Operators
	
Identity Operators
	
Ternary Operator
	
Operator precedence
	
Difference between “is” vs “==”
Input & Output Operators in Python
	
Print
	
Input
	
Command-line arguments
Control Statements in Python
	
Conditional control statements
	
If
	
If-else
	
If-elif-else
	
Nested-if
	
Loop control statements
	
for
	
while
	
Nested loops
	
Branching statements
	
Break
	
Continue
	
Pass
	
Return
Exception Handling & Types of Errors in Python
	
What is Exception?
	
Why exception handling?
	
Syntax error v/s Runtime error
	
Exception codes – AttributeError, ValueError, IndexError, TypeError…
	
Handling exception – try except block
	
Try with multi except
	
Handling multiple exceptions with single except block
	
Finally block
	
Try-except-finally
	
Try with finally
	
Case study of finally block
	
Raise keyword
	
Custom exceptions / User defined exceptions
	
Need to Custom exceptions
Data Structures or Collections in Python
	
Introduction
	
Importance of Data structures
	
Applications of Data structures
	
Types of Collections
	
Sequence
	
Strings, List, Tuple, range
	
Non sequence
	
Set, Frozen set, Dictionary
Strings in Python
	
What is string
	
Representation of Strings
	
Processing elements using indexing
	
Processing elements using Iterators
	
Manipulation of String using Indexing and Slicing
	
String operators
	
Methods of String object
	
String Formatting
	
String functions
	
String Immutability
List Collection in Python
	
What is List
	
Need of List collection
	
Different ways of creating List
	
List comprehension
	
List indices
	
Processing elements of List through Indexing and Slicing
	
List object methods
	
List is Mutable
	
Mutable and Immutable elements of List
	
Nested Lists
	
List_of_lists
	
Hardcopy, shallowCopy and DeepCopy
	
zip() in Python
	
How to unzip?
	
Python Arrays
Tuple Collection in Python
	
What is tuple?
	
Different ways of creating Tuple
	
Method of Tuple object
	
Tuple is Immutable
	
Mutable and Immutable elements of Tuple
	
Process tuple through Indexing and Slicing
	
List v/s Tuple
Set Collection in Python
	
What is set?
	
Different ways of creating set
	
Difference between list and set
	
Iteration Over Sets
	
Accessing elements of set
	
Python Set Methods
	
Python Set Operations
	
Union of sets
	
functions and methods of set
	
Python Frozen set
	
Difference between set and frozenset ?
Dictionary Collection in Python
	
What is dictionary?
	
Difference between list, set and dictionary
	
How to create a dictionary?
	
PYTHON HASHING?
	
Accessing values of dictionary
	
Python Dictionary Methods
	
Copying dictionary
	
Updating Dictionary
	
Reading keys from Dictionary
	
Reading values from Dictionary
	
Reading items from Dictionary
	
Delete Keys from the dictionary
	
Sorting the Dictionary
	
Python Dictionary Functions and methods
	
Dictionary comprehension
Functions in Python
	
What is Function?
	
Advantages of functions
	
Syntax and Writing function
	
Calling or Invoking function
	
Classification of Functions
	
No arguments and No return values
	
With arguments and No return values
	
With arguments and With return values
	
No arguments and With return values
	
Recursion
	
Python argument type functions :
	
Default argument functions
	
Required(Positional) arguments function
	
Keyword arguments function
	
Variable arguments functions
	
‘pass’ keyword in functions
	
Lambda functions/Anonymous functions
	
map()
	
filter()
	
reduce()
	
Nested functions
	
Non local variables, global variables
	
Closures
	
Decorators
	
Generators
	
Iterators
	
Monkey patching
Bio-Python 
-Introduction
-Installing Bio-Python
-Working with sequence
-Connecting with biological database
-Sequence annotation Object
-Sequence Input/Output
-Multiple Sequence Alignment Object
-Blast Running over internet
-Blast and other sequence searching tools
-Searing Enterez Database EMBL
-Searching NCBI Database 
-Phylogenetic with Bio-Python

-BioSQL connectivity

Bio-Python Academic Project Work (Optional):
	
Bio-Python for  Sequence Alignment
	
Bio-Python for Sequence Search
	
Bio-Python for Annotation