Python Certification Program at DSBA

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Date: 13^th 2020 to 29^th Jan 2020

Venue: IV Floor Business Lab

Participants: BCA-II & III Year [51 students] 

Time: 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

Program Objective: It enables participants to learn Machine Learning and Data Science concepts from scratch; master important Python programming concepts such as data operations, file operations, object-oriented programming and various Python libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, and Matplotlib which are essential for Machine Learning & Data Science. 

Learning Outcome: The participants mastered the fundamentals of writing Python scripts; learned core Python scripting elements such as variables and flow control structures; discovered how to work with lists and sequence data; wrote Python functions to facilitate code reuse; used Python to read and write files; made their code robust by handling errors and exceptions properly; worked with the Python standard library; explored Pythons object-oriented features and searched text using regular expressions. 

The resource person was Prof. M. Vasudevarao, a postgraduate in Computer applications from VTU University. He is a trained IT professional with in-depth knowledge in Oracle10G, Oracle 11g, Oracle 9i Fundamentals-I & Fundamentals-II (DBA). Oracle 9i Developer Suite, Data Warehousing, BigData, Data Mining, NoSQL and MySQL, Data Analysis, Cloud and Distributed Computing, Oracle Database Administration Prof Rao has 16 years of teaching experience in Academics & industry in the domain of Python & Big Data Analytics, has presented papers in various national seminars and attended many FDP and workshops. He is currently working at DSBA in the BCA Dept.

On day one, Prof. M. Vasudevarao gave an overview of Python in the first session, by session three they got started with flow control and the fourth session ended with loops. 

On day two, in the fifth and sixth sessions, array types was taught, in the seventh the students worked with files and the session ended with dictionaries and sets. 

Prof Rao began the ninth session on day three with functions, followed by sorting .In the post lunch eleventh and twelfth sessions, he taught errors and exception handling. 

Day four began with modules and package; this was succeeded by regular expressions. In the noon in the fifteenth and sixteenth sessions, Prof Vasudevarao taught Object-Oriented Programming. 

On the final day, participants were introduced to Data Mining, Statistics. Next they were introduced to Machine Learning, Data Science. Post lunch, Python for Data Analysis, Numpy, Pandas, Python for Data Visualization, and Data Preprocessing Techniques during the nineteenth and twentieth sessions.

The students appreciated the insight that was provided during the five-day period; it opened their eyes to a new way of doing things and this program did a great job of providing actionable concepts in a way that encouraged instant application..