This curriculum has been designed for a 12 days intensive workshop, to help students learn problem solving using flowcharts and a programming language, Python here. This workshop is aimed for anyone who wants to learn programming.
Module 1 - Number Systems
- Writing numbers in any symbol system
- Writing numbers in a 2 symbol system
Lesson 1.2 - Binary System- Finding patterns:
- Conversion of numbers from Decimal to Binary
- Conversion of numbers from Binary to Decimal
Module 2 - Problem solving using Flowcharts
Lesson 2.1 - Introduction to flowcharts:
- Input/output box, process box, start/stop box
- Indirect introduction of Python syntax with print statement
- Variables and initialization
Lesson 2.2 - Operators and Conditionals:
- Arithmetic operators(+,-,*,/,//,%)
- Conditionals(if, else)
- Relational operators(<,>,<=,>=,==,!=)
- Introduction to loops
- while loop in a flowchart
- Scaffolded problems on loops
- Lists definition, creation(manual and from the user)
- Indexing and traversal of a list
- Operations on list - append, insert
- List of lists
- Creation
- Indexing
- Traversal
Module 3 - Problem solving using Python programming language
Lesson 3.1 - Introduction of Python - 1:
- Variables, input and output
- Conversion of problems solved using flowcharts to Python
Lesson 3.2 - Introduction of Python - 2:
- Conditionals, loops and lists
- Conversion of problems solved using flowcharts to Python
Practice Problems list: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1f3IXWd7EKNdUl_Hrx4tVkFAdSaOBm1Q_gzaSmablDeE
Module 4 - Introduction to Online judge and competitions
In case you have any inputs or suggestions for the improvement of the curriculum, write us to [email protected]
Building Blocks of Programming by CodeChef is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
