A fun filled whirlwind tour of 30 hrs, covering everything you need to know to fall in love with the most sought after skill of the 21st century. The course brings programming to your desk with anecdotes, analogies and illustrious examples. Turning abstractions to insights and engineering to art, the course focuses primarily to inspire the learner’s mind to think logically and arrive at a solution programmatically. As part of the course, you will be learning how to practice and culture the art of programming with Python as a language. At the end of the course, we introduce some of the current advances in computing to motivate the enthusiastic learner to pursue further directions.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Any interested audience
PREREQUISITES
10th standard/high school
INDUSTRY SUPPORT
Every software company is aware of the potential of a first course in computer science. Especially of a first course in computing, done right.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Prof. Sudarshan Iyengar, Associate Professor at the CSE at IIT Ropar has a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). An exemplary teacher who has delivered over 350 popular science talks to students of high school and advanced graduate programmes. Dr. Sudarshan has offered more than 100 hours of online lectures with novel teaching methodologies that have reached lakhs of Students. His research interests include Data Sciences, Social Computing, Social Networks, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourced Technologies and Secure Computation
Additional information
Institute
IIT Ropar
Total hours
30
Certification Process
1. Join the course
Learners may pay the applicable fees and enrol to a course on offer in the portal and get access to all of its contents including assignments. Validity of enrolment, which includes access to the videos and other learning material and attempting the assignments, will be mentioned on the course. Learner has to complete the assignments and get the minimum required marks to be eligible for the certification exam within this period.
COURSE ENROLMENT FEE: The Fee for Enrolment is Rs. 3000 + GST
2. Watch Videos+Submit Assignments
After enrolling, learners can watch lectures and learn and follow it up with attempting/answering the assignments given.
3. Get qualified to register for exams
A learner can earn a certificate in the self paced course only by appearing for the online remote proctored exam and to register for this, the learner should get minimum required marks in the assignments as given below:
CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE
Assignment score = Score more than 50% in at least 9/12 assignments.
Programming Assignment score = Score more than 50% in at least 22/33 assignments.
Exam score = 50% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.”
4. Register for exams
The certification exam is conducted online with remote proctoring. Once a learner has become eligible to register for the certification exam, they can choose a slot convenient to them from what is available and pay the exam fee. Schedule of available slot dates/timings for these remote-proctored online examinations will be published and made available to the learners.
EXAM FEE: The remote proctoring exam is optional for a fee of Rs.1500 + GST. An additional fee of Rs.1500 will apply for a non-standard time slot.
5. Results and Certification
After the exam, based on the certification criteria of the course, results will be declared and learners will be notified of the same. A link to download the e-certificate will be shared with learners who pass the certification exam.
CERTIFICATE TEMPLATE
Course Details
Motivation for Computing
Welcome to Programming!!
Variables and Expressions : Design your own calculator
Loops and Conditionals : Hopscotch once again
Lists, Tuples and Conditionals : Lets go on a trip
Abstraction Everywhere : Apps in your phone
Counting Candies : Crowd to the rescue
Birthday Paradox : Find your twin
Google Translate : Speak in any Language
Currency Converter : Count your foreign trip expenses
Monte Hall : 3 doors and a twist
Sorting : Arrange the books
Searching : Find in seconds
Substitution Cipher : What’s the secret !!
Sentiment Analysis : Analyse your Facebook data
20 questions game : I can read your mind
Permutations : Jumbled Words
Spot the similarities : Dobble game
Count the words : Hundreds, Thousands or Millions.
Rock, Paper and Scissor : Cheating not allowed !!
Lie detector : No lies, only TRUTH
Calculation of the Area : Don’t measure.
Six degrees of separation : Meet your favourites
Image Processing : Fun with images
Tic tac toe : Let’s play
Snakes and Ladders : Down the memory lane.
Recursion : Tower of Hanoi
Page Rank : How Google Works !!
2 reviews for The Joy of Computing using Python
Rated 5 out of 5
AVINASHcxhb GOSAVI –
you are super. I enrolled in your 2 courses just by your introduction video.
If This type of teaching method gets adopted, India will definitely see more growth in the quality of students.
Rated 5 out of 5
Prithviraj Shankar Devkar –
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AVINASHcxhb GOSAVI –
you are super. I enrolled in your 2 courses just by your introduction video.
If This type of teaching method gets adopted, India will definitely see more growth in the quality of students.
Prithviraj Shankar Devkar –
best certification course NPTEL, and the joy of computing python I online learn class daily to daily to attend your class and Assignment. for this watch in video solve in Assignment. I have a best certification course in NPTEL for this thank you for this NPTEL…
1. I am on question NPTEL ?
– Exam Registration for the link you have send…