Chapter 1 - Introduction to Authors and Book

• Authors

• Ms. Samavi Salman
• Dr. Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab

Learn to Smile and Appreciate

Your smiling in the face of your brother is charity

Jamia Tirmidhi – Hadith No. 1956

• A Good Quote

• Great people have two things on their faces

• Smile
• Silence

• Smile To

• avoid problems

• Silence To

• solve problems

TODO and Your Turn​

Todo Tasks

Your Turn Tasks

Todo Tasks

Your Turn Tasks

Life

• Life

• Question:

• Life = Technical Skills (___%) + Human Engineering (___%)

• Answer:

• Life = Technical Skills (15%) + Human Engineering (85%)

• Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4js88TyH848

• Achieving Excellence in Technical Skills

• Question:

• How can we achieve excellence in Technical Skills?

• Answer:

• Learn Technical Skills by following the best learning methodology, i.e., DO IT YOURSELF

• Achieving Excellence in Human Engineering

• Question:

• How can we achieve excellence in Human Engineering?

• Answer:

• Never ever compromise on 3 pillars of Human Engineering

• Truth
• Honesty
• Justice

• Trade off Between Accuracy and Speed

• Question:

• There is a tradeoff between accuracy and speed. When learning a concept, on which aspect should we focus first?

• Answer:

• First focus on accuracy, then speed

• Effect of Taking Notes

• Question:

• If you listen to a Lecture, do you remember ____%? If you take notes of a Lecture, do you remember ____%?

• Answer:

• If you listen to a Lecture, you remember 11%? If you take notes of a Lecture, do you remember 89%?

• Five-Step Process - Performing / Solving any Real-world Task / Problem

• Question:

• What is the five-step process to solve any Real-world Problem?

• Answer:

• To completely and correctly solve any Real-world Problem, follow the following five-step process

• Plan – in Mind
• Design – on Paper
• Execute – at Prototype Level
• Execute – at Full Scale
• Feedback – from audience and domain experts for further improvement

• Time Management is Life Management

• Make your TODO List to

• organize and prioritize your daily / weekly / monthly Real-world Tasks

• What is your Goal?

• Goals

• Layer 1 = Become a Student
• Layer 2 = Become Best Student of Ilm O Irfan Institute, Lahore
• Layer 3 = Become Best Student of Lahore
• Layer 4 = Become Best Student of South Punjab
• Layer 5 = Become Best Student of Punjab
• Layer 6 = Become Best Student of Pakistan
• Layer 7 = Become Best Student of South Asia
• Layer 8 = Become Best Student of Asia
• Layer 9 = Become Best Student of the World
• Layer 10 = Become a Benchmark in Teaching and Learning in the History of Mankind

• Nothing to Lose at Each Layer – Stay Happy and Motivated

• Advice of My Respected Teacher

• When you do any Real-world Task,

• Put Your 100% Effort with Sincerity without Bothering about the Results

• Question:

• 100% Effort with Sincerity == > Getting Desired Results It will ____?

• Answer:

• 100% Effort with Sincerity == > Getting Desired Results => It will Double Your Confidence

• Question:

• 100% Effort with Sincerity == > Getting NOT Desired Results It will ____?

• Answer:

• 100% Effort with Sincerity == > NOT Getting Desired Results => It will Double Your Experience

• Conclusion

• Nothing to Lose at each Layer of becoming a Benchmark in Teaching and Learning in the History of Mankind Keep Smiling and Stay Motivated

TODO and Your Turn​

Todo Tasks

Your Turn Tasks

Todo Tasks

Your Turn Tasks

About the Authors​

Life = Technical Skills (15%) + Human Engineering (85%)

Samavi Salman

Dr. Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab

Samavi Salman

Dr. Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab

Profile Summary: DR. Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab

Faculty Profile

Research Profile

Faculty Profile

Research Profile

TODO and Your Turn​

Todo Tasks

Your Turn Tasks

Todo Tasks

Your Turn Tasks

Book Aims, and Book Learning Outcomes, and Book Contents​

• Why - Learn Python?

• Python is free, open source, easy to learn and fun to use
• Python is the fastest growing Programming Language, and it is among the top three Programming Languages of the world
• Python has extensive online documentation and community support
• Python is the second-highest paid Programming Language of the world
• Python is secure (thanks to OWASP Python Security Project) and flexible (i.e., it has a huge number of general and application-specific Libraries and Frameworks)
• Python is commonly and widely used in many fields including

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Data Science
• Data Analytics and Data Visualization
• Cyber Security
• Web Development
• Scientific and Mathematical Computing
• Computer Graphics
• System Automation and Administration
• Finance and Trading
• Game Development
• Security and Penetration Testing
• General and Application-specific Scripting
• Mapping and Geography
• And Many More 😊

• Book Focus

• The focus of the Book is to

• Learn how to plan, design, and develop high-quality software using Python to solve Real-world Problems

• Book Aims

• The main aims of this Book are as follows:

• Introduce how to achieve excellence in both Technical Skills and Human Engineering to become a balanced and characterful person
• Introduce how to tell an interesting, connected, and coherent story in a Book
• Introduce how to (1) plan, (2) design, (3) write, and (4) test / debug, software’s using a Template-based Approach
• Introduce core concepts of Python Programming Language including constants, variables, pseudo code, flow chart, conditionals, loops, functions, data structures, file handling, exception handling, software texting and software debugging
• Introduce how to execute Software Life Cycle to completely and correctly develop high-quality software’s using Python Programming Language

• Effect of Taking Notes

• By the end of this Book, a reader should be able to:

• Live and enjoy the blessings of a balanced and characterful life by putting effort on daily basis to achieve excellence in both Technical Skills and Human Engineering
• Plan, design, and develop high-quality software’s using a Template-based Approach
• Completely and correctly understand core concepts of Python Programming and how they work together to build high-quality software’s
• Understand how to solve Real-world Problems using Python Programming Language by completely and correctly executing the Software Life Cycle
• Understand how the following approaches can be used to efficiently solve both Real-world Problems and Python Programming Problems, including

• Systematic Thinking Approach
• Identifying Most Suitable Solution Approach
• Completeness and Correctness Approach
• Divide and Conquer Approach
• Half-Cooked Approach
• Structured Thinking Approach
• Inverted Triangle Approach
• 100% Effort with Sincerity Approach

• Important Note

• To successfully achieve all the Book Aims and Book Learning Outcomes, please

• DO all the TODO and Your Turn Tasks on Time with Truth, Honesty, Justice

Book Outline

• Why - Learn Python?

• Introduction

• Chapter 1 - Introduction to Authors and Book
• Chapter 2 - Basics of Computer
• Chapter 3 - Basics of Programming

• Basics of Python

• Chapter 4 - Basics of Python
• Chapter 5 - Constants in Python
• Chapter 6 - Variables in Python
• Chapter 7 - Operators and Expressions in Python
• Chapter 8 - Plan and Design a Python Program Using Flow Charts

• Software Life Cycle

• Chapter 9 - Best Coding Practices in Python
• Chapter 10 - Exception Handling in Python
• Chapter 11 - Software Testing
• Chapter 12 - Software Debugging
• Chapter 13 - Deployment of Software on Client Machine
• Chapter 14 - Software Life Cycle

• Selection Structures for Decision Making

• Chapter 15 - Selection Structures for Decision Making
• Chapter 16 - if Selection Structure
• Chapter 17 - if-else Selection Structure
• Chapter 18 - if-elif Selection Structure
• Chapter 19 - Nested Selection Structures

• Repetition Structures

• Chapter 20 - Repetition Structures in Python
• Chapter 21 - while Repetition Structure
• Chapter 22 - for Repetition Structure
• Chapter 23 - Break and Continue Statements

• Function

• Chapter 24 - Functions
• Chapter 25 - A Step by Step Example to Write Functions – I
• Chapter 26 - A Step by Step Example to Write Functions – II
• Chapter 27 - A Step by Step Example to Write Functions – III

• Data Structures and File Handling

• Chapter 28 - Basics of Data Structures
• Chapter 29 - Arrays
• Chapter 30 - Strings
• Chapter 31 - Lists
• Chapter 32 - Tuples
• Chapter 33 - Sets
• Chapter 34 - Dictionary
• Chapter 35 - File Handling

• Conclusion and Future Work

• Chapter 36 – Book Main Findings, Conclusion and Future Work

TODO and Your Turn

Todo Tasks

Your Turn Tasks

Todo Tasks

Your Turn Tasks

Book Development and Teaching Methodology ​

• Book Development Methodology

• Book aims to Tell a Connect and Coherent Story using a

• Simple to Complex, Step-by-Step Approach

• Step 1: Chapter

• 100% Work is Done by Teacher

• Step 2: TODO Tasks

• 50% Work is Done by Teacher
• 50% Work is to be Done by Students

• Step 3: Your Turn Tasks

• 100% Work is to be Done by Students

• Book Teaching Methodology

• Book will be taught using Half-Cooked Approach

• 50% of Work will be Done by Teacher
• 50% of Work will be Done by Student

Chapter Summary

• Chapter Summary

• To summarize, in this Chapter, I presented

• The power of smile and appreciation
• How to achieve excellence in both Technical Skills and Human Engineering through this Book?
• A brief introduction of the authors of the Book
• Course contents, course aims and course learning outcomes
• Course development and teaching methodology

In Next Chapter

• In Next Chapter

• In Sha Allah, in the next Chapter, I will present a detailed discussion on

• 3 Ps of Programming
• Types of Programming Languages
• Approaches to Convert Source Code into Machine Code
• IDEs of Programming Languages

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