ANDHRA PRADESH STATE COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATION

(A Statutory body of the Government of Andhra Pradesh)

Revised UG Syllabus Under CBCS
(Implemented from Academic Year 2020-21)
PROGRAMME: FOUR YEAR B.Sc. (Hons)
Domain Subject: COMPUTER SCIENCE

Skill Enhancement Courses (SECs) for Semester V, from 2022-23 (Syllabus with
Learning Outcomes, References, Co-curricular Activities)

Structure of SECs for Semester – V

(To choose one pair from the three alternate pairs of SECs)

Course Hours/ Marks

Univ Credits
Number Name of Course Week IA – 20 Sem
Code Theo+Prac
6&7 Theo+Prac Filed Work 05 End
Web Interface
6A Designing 3+3 3+ 2 25 75
Technologies
Web Applications
7A Development using 3+3 3+2 25 75
PHP& MYSQL
OR
Internet of Things
6B 3+3 3+ 2 25 75

Application
7B Development using 3+3 3+2 25 75
Python
OR
Data science
6C 3+3 3+ 2 25 75

Python for Data

7C 3+3 3+2 25 75
science

Note-1: For Semester–V, for the domain subject Computer Science any one of the three
pairs of SECs shall be chosen as courses 6 and 7, i.e., 6A & 7A or 6B & 7B or 6C & 7C.
The pair shall not be broken (ABCD allotment is random, not on any priority basis).

Note-2: One of the main objectives of Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC) is to inculcate field
related skills of the domain subject in students. The syllabus of SEC will be partially skill
oriented. Hence, teachers shall also impart practical training to students on the skills
embedded in syllabus citing related real field situations.

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 A.P. State Council of Higher Education
Semester-wise Revised Syllabus under CBCS, 2020-21
Course Code:
Four-year B.Sc.(Hons)
Domain Subject: Computer Science
IV Year B. Sc.(Hons) – Semester – V
Max Marks: 100 + 50
Course 6A: Web Interface Designing Technologies
(Skill Enhancement Course (Elective), Credits: 05)

I. Learning Outcomes: Students after successful completion of the course will be able to:

1. Understand and appreciate the web architecture and services.

2. Gain knowledge about various components of a website.
3. Demonstrate skills regarding creation of a static website and an interface to dynamic
website.
4. Learn how to install word press and gain the knowledge of installing various plugins
to use in their websites.

II. Syllabus: (Total Hours: 90 including Teaching, Lab, and Field training, Unit tests etc.)

Unit - I (10 hours)

HTML: Introduction to web designing, difference between web applications and desktop
applications, introduction to HTML, HTML structure, elements, attributes, headings,
paragraphs, styles, colours, HTML formatting, Quotations, Comments, images, tables, lists,
blocks and classes, HTML CSS, HTML frames, file paths, layout, symbols, HTML
responsive.
Unit – II (10 hours)
HTML forms: HTML form elements, input types, input attributes, HTML5, HTML
graphics, HTML media – video, audio, plug INS, you tube.
HTML API’S: Geo location, Drag/drop, local storage, HTML SSE.
CSS: CSS home, introduction, syntax, colours, back ground, borders, margins, padding,
height/width, text, fonts, icons, tables, lists, position, over flow, float, CSS combinators,
pseudo class, pseudo elements, opacity, tool tips, image gallery, CSS forms, CSS counters,
CSS responsive.
Unit – III (10 hours)
Client side Validation: Introduction to JavaScript - What is DHTML, JavaScript, basics,
variables, string manipulations, mathematical functions, statements, operators, arrays,
functions. Objects in JavaScript - Data and objects in JavaScript, regular expressions,
exception handling. DHTML with JavaScript - Data validation, opening a new window,
messages and confirmations, the status bar, different frames, rollover buttons, moving
images.
Unit – IV (10 hours)
Word press: Introduction to word press, servers like wamp, bitnami e.tc, installing and
configuring word press, understanding admin panel, working with posts and pages, using
editor, text formatting with shortcuts, working with media-Adding, editing, deleting media
elements, working with widgets, menus.

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 Unit – V (10 hours)
Working with themes-parent and child themes, using featured images, configuring settings,
user and user roles and profiles, adding external links, extending word press with plug-ins.
Customizing the site, changing the appearance of site using css , protecting word press
website from hackers.

III. References
1. Chris Bates, Web Programming Building Internet Applications, Second Edition,
Wiley (2007)
2. Paul S.WangSanda S. Katila, an Introduction to Web Design plus Programming,
Thomson (2007).
3. Head First HTML and CSS, Elisabeth Robson, Eric Freeman, O’Reilly Media Inc.
4. An Introduction to HTML and JavaScript: for Scientists and Engineers, David R.
Brooks. Springer, 2007
5. Schaum's Easy Outline HTML, David Mercer, Mcgraw Hill Professional.
6. Word press for Beginners, Dr.Andy Williams.
7. Professional word press, Brad Williams, David damstra, Hanstern.
8. Web resources:
a. http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/web
b. http://www.w3schools.com
c. https://www.w3schools.in/wordpress-tutorial/
d. http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk
9. Other web sources suggested by the teacher concerned and the college librarian
including reading material.

IV. Co-Curricular Activities

a) Mandatory: (Training of students by teacher in field related skills: (lab: 10 + field: 05) :
1. For Teacher: Field related training of students by the teacher in laboratory/field for not
less than 15 hours on identifying the case study to build a website, designing the format,
structure, menus, submenus etc for a website and finally to build a website.
2. For Student: Students shall (individually) search online and visit any of the agencies like
hotels, hospitals, super bazaars, organizations, etc. where there is a need for a website and
identify any one case study and submit a hand-written Fieldwork/Project work/Project
work/Project work/Project work Report not exceeding 10 pages. Example: Choosing a firm
or business to develop a website, identifying various business entities to be included in the
website, identifying menu bar and content to be placed in their websites.
3. Max marks for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project
work Report: 05.
4. Suggested Format for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work:
Title page, student details, index page, details of place visited, observations, findings and
acknowledgements.
5. Unit tests (IE).
b) Suggested Co-Curricular Activities
1. Build a website with 10 pages for the case study identified.
2. Training of students by related industrial experts.
3. Assignments
4. Seminars, Group discussions, Quiz, Debates etc. (on related topics).
5. Presentation by students on best websites.
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 Course 6A: Web Interface Designing Technologies – PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

V. Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this practical course, student shall be able to:
1. Create a basic website with the help of HTML and CSS.
2. Acquire the skill of installing word press and various plugins of Word press.
3. Create a static website with the help of Word press.
4. Create an interface for a dynamic website.
5. Apply various themes for their websites using Word press.

VI. Practical (Laboratory) Syllabus: (30 hrs.)

HTML and CSS:
1. Create an HTML document with the following formatting options:

(a)Bold, (b) Italics, (c) Underline, (d) Headings (Using H1 to H6 heading styles), (e)
Font (Type, Size and Color), (f) Background (Colored background/Image in
background), (g) Paragraph, (h) Line Break, (i) Horizontal Rule, (j) Pre tag

2. Create an HTML document which consists of:

(a) Ordered List (b) Unordered List (c) Nested List (d) Image

3. Create a Table with four rows and five columns. Place an image in one column.
4. Using “table” tag, align the images as follows:

5. Create a menu form using html.

6. Style the menu buttons using css.
7. Create a form using HTML which has the following types of controls:
(a) Text Box (b) Option/radio buttons (c) Check boxes (d) Reset and Submit buttons
8. Embed a calendar object in your web page.
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9. Create an applet that accepts two numbers and perform all the arithmetic operations
on them.
10. Create nested table to store your curriculum.
11. Create a form that accepts the information from the subscriber of a mailing system.
12. Design the page as follows:

13. Create a help file as follows:

14. Create a webpage containing your bio data (assume the form and fields).
15. Write a html program including style sheets.
16. Write a html program to layers of information in web page.
17. Create a static webpage.

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Word press:
18. Installation and configuration of word press.
19. Create a site and add a theme to it.
20 Create a child theme
21. Create five pages on COVID – 19 and link them to the home page. .
22. Create a simple post with featured image.
23. Add an external video link with size 640 X 360.
24. Create a user and assign a role to him.
25. Create a login page to word press using custom links
26. Create a website for your college.

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 A.P. State Council of Higher Education
Semester-wise Revised Syllabus under CBCS, 2020-21
Course Code:
Four -year B.Sc.(Hons)
Domain Subject: Computer Science
IV Year B. Sc.(Hons) – Semester – V
Max Marks: 100 + 50
Course 7A: Web Applications Development using PHP & MYSQL
(Skill Enhancement Course (Elective), Credits: 05)

I. Learning Outcomes:
Students after successful completion of the course will be able to:
1. Write simple programs in PHP.
2. Understand how to use regular expressions, handle exceptions, and validate data using
PHP.
3. Apply In-Built functions and Create User defined functions in PHP programming.
4. Write PHP scripts to handle HTML forms.
5. Write programs to create dynamic and interactive web based applications using PHP
and MYSQL.
6. Know how to use PHP with a MySQL database and can write database driven web
pages.

II. Syllabus: (Total Hours: 90 including Teaching, Lab, and Field training, Unit tests etc.)

Unit-1: (10 hours)

The Building blocks of PHP: Variables, Data Types, Operators and Expressions, Constants.
Flow Control Functions in PHP: Switching Flow, Loops, Code Blocks and Browser Output.
Working with Functions: What is function?, Calling functions, Defining Functions, Returning
the values from User-Defined Functions, Variable Scope, Saving state between Function calls
with the static statement, more about arguments.

Unit-2: (10 hours)

Working with Arrays: What are Arrays? Creating Arrays, Some Array-Related Functions.
Working with Objects: Creating Objects, Object Instance Working with Strings, Dates and
Time: Formatting strings with PHP, Investigating Strings with PHP, Manipulating Strings
with PHP, Using Date and Time Functions in PHP.

Unit-3: (10 hours)

Working with Forms: Creating Forms, Accessing Form Input with User defined Arrays,
Combining HTML and PHP code on a single Page, Using Hidden Fields to save state,
Redirecting the user, Sending Mail on Form Submission, and Working with File Uploads.
Working with Cookies and User Sessions: Introducing Cookies, Setting a Cookie with PHP,
Session Function Overview, Starting a Session, Working with session variables, passing
session IDs in the Query String, Destroying Sessions and Unsetting Variables, Using
Sessions in an Environment with Registered Users.

Unit-4: (10 hours)

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Working with Files and Directories: Including Files with inclue(), Validating Files, Creating
and Deleting Files, Opening a File for Writing, Reading or Appending, Reading from Files,
Writing or Appending to a File, Working with Directories, Open Pipes to and from Process
Using popen(), Running Commands with exec(), Running Commands with system() or
passthru().

Working with Images: Understanding the Image-Creation Process, Necessary Modifications

to PHP, Drawing a New Image, Getting Fancy with Pie Charts, Modifying Existing Images,
Image Creation from User Input.

Unit-5: (10 hours)

Interacting with MySQL using PHP: MySQL Versus MySQLi Functions, Connecting to
MySQL with PHP, Working with MySQL Data. Creating an Online Address Book: Planning
and Creating Database Tables, Creating Menu, Creating Record Addition Mechanism,
Viewing Records, Creating the Record Deletion Mechanism, Adding Sub-entities to a
Record.

III. References
1. Julie C. Meloni, SAMS Teach yourself PHP MySQL and Apache, Pearson
Education (2007).
2. Steven Holzner , PHP: The Complete Reference, McGraw-Hill
3. Robin Nixon, Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5, Third Edition
O'reilly, 2014
4. Xue Bai Michael Ekedahl, The web warrior guide to Web Programming, Thomson
(2006).
5. Web resources:
e. http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/php
f. http://www.w3schools.com/PHP
g. http://www.tutorialpoint.com

6. Other web sources suggested by the teacher concerned and the college librarian
including reading material.

IV. Co-Curricular Activities:

a) Mandatory: (Training of students by teacher in field related skills: (lab: 10 + field: 05) :
1. For Teacher: Field related training of students by the teacher in laboratory/field for not
less than 15 hours on demonstrating various interactive and dynamic websites available
online, addressing the students on identifying the case study to build an interactive and
database driven website, forms to be used in website, database to be maintained, reports to be
produced, etc.
2. For Student: Students shall (individually) search online and visit any of the agencies like
malls, hotels, super bazaars, etc. where there is a need for an interactive and database driven
website and submit a hand-written Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project
work/Project work Report not exceeding 10 pages. Example: Choosing a firm or business to
develop a website, identifying forms to be placed in the websites, back end databases to be
maintained and reports to be generated and placed in the websites.
3. Max marks for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project
work Report: 05.

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4. Suggested Format for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work:
Title page, student details, index page, details of place or websites visited, structure of the
website and acknowledgements.
5. Unit tests (IE).

b) Suggested Co-Curricular Activities

1. Arrange expert lectures by IT experts working professionally in the area of web content
development
2. Assignments (in writing or implementing contents related to syllabus or outside the
syllabus. Shall be individual and challenging)
3. Seminars, Group discussions, Quiz, Debates etc. (on related topics).
4. Preparation by students on best websites.
5. Arrange a webpage development competition among small groups of students.

Course 7A: Web Applications Development using PHP & MYSQL–

PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

V. Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this practical course, student shall be able to:
1. Write, debug and implement the Programs by applying concepts and error handling
techniques of PHP.
2. Create an interactive and dynamic website.
3. Create a website with reports generated from a database.
4. Write programs to create an interactive website for e-commerce sites like online
shopping, etc.
VI. Practical (Laboratory) Syllabus: (30 hrs.)
1. Write a PHP program to Display “Hello”
2. Write a PHP Program to display the today’s date.
3. Write a PHP program to display Fibonacci series.
4. Write a PHP Program to read the employee details.
5. Write a PHP program to prepare the student marks list.
6. Write a PHP program to generate the multiplication of two matrices.
7. Create student registration form using text box, check box, radio button, select,
submit button. And display user inserted value in new PHP page.
8. Create Website Registration Form using text box, check box, radio button, select,
submit button. And display user inserted value in new PHP page.
9. Write PHP script to demonstrate passing variables with cookies.
10. Write a program to keep track of how many times a visitor has loaded the page.
11. Write a PHP application to add new Rows in a Table.
12. Write a PHP application to modify the Rows in a Table.
13. Write a PHP application to delete the Rows from a Table.
14. Write a PHP application to fetch the Rows in a Table.
15. Develop an PHP application to implement the following Operations

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 i. Registration of Users.
ii. Insert the details of the Users.
iii. Modify the Details.
iv. Transaction Maintenance.
a) No of times Logged in
b) Time Spent on each login.
c) Restrict the user for three trials only.
d) Delete the user if he spent more than 100 Hrs of transaction.

16. Write a PHP script to connect MySQL server from your website.
17. Write a program to read customer information like cust-no, cust-name, item-
purchased, and mob-no, from customer table and display all these information in
table format on output screen.
18. Write a program to edit name of customer to “Kiran” with cust-no =1, and to delete
record with cust-no=3.
19. Write a program to read employee information like emp-no, emp-name, designation
and salary from EMP table and display all this information using table format in
your website.
20. Create a dynamic web site using PHP and MySQL.

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 A.P. State Council of Higher Education
Semester-wise Revised Syllabus under CBCS, 2020-21
Course Code:
Four -year B.Sc.(Hons)
Domain Subject: Computer Science
IV Year B. Sc.(Hons) – Semester – V
Max Marks: 100 + 50
Course 6B: INTERNET OF THINGS
(Skill Enhancement Course (Elective), Credits: 05)

I. Learning Outcomes: Students after successful completion of the course will be able to:
1. Appreciate the technology for IoT
2. Understand various concepts, terminologies and architecture of IoT systems.
3. Understand various applications of IoT
4. Learn how to use various sensors and actuators for design of IoT.
5. Learn how to connect various things to Internet.
6. Learn the skills to develop simple IOT Devices.

II. Syllabus: (Total Hours: 90 including Teaching, Lab, Field training, Unit tests etc.)

Unit - I (10 hours)

Fundamentals of IoT: Introduction, Definitions & Characteristics of IoT, IoT Architectures,
Physical & Logical Design of IoT, Enabling Technologies in IoT, History of IoT, About
Things in IoT, The Identifiers in IoT, About the Internet in IoT, IoT frameworks, IoT and
M2M.

Applications of IoT: Home Automation, Smart Cities, Energy, Retail Management,

Logistics, Agriculture, Health and Lifestyle, Industrial IoT, Legal challenges, IoT design
Ethics, IoT in Environmental Protection.

Unit - II (10 hours)

Sensors Networks : Definition, Types of Sensors, Types of Actuators, Examples and
Working, IoT Development Boards: Arduino IDE and Board Types, RaspberriPi
Development Kit, RFID Principles and components, Wireless Sensor Networks: History and
Context, The node, Connecting nodes, Networking Nodes, WSN and IoT.

Unit - III (10 hours)

Wireless Technologies for IoT: WPAN Technologies for IoT: IEEE 802.15.4, Zigbee,
HART, NFC, Z-Wave, BLE, Bacnet And Modbus.
IP Based Protocols for IoT IPv6, 6LowPAN, LoRA, RPL, REST, AMPQ, CoAP, MQTT.
Edge connectivity and protocols.
Unit - IV (10 hours)
Arduino Simulation Environment: Arduino Uno Architecture, Setting up the IDE, Writing
Arduino Software, Arduino Libraries, Basics of Embedded C programming for Arduino,
Interfacing LED, push button and buzzer with Arduino, Interfacing Arduino with LCD.

Sensor & Actuators with Arduino: Overview of Sensors working, Analog and Digital
Sensors, Interfacing of Temperature, Humidity, Motion, Light and Gas Sensors with
Arduino, Interfacing of Actuators with Arduino, Interfacing of Relay Switch and Servo
Motor with Arduino.

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 Unit - V (10 hours)
Developing IOT’s: Implementation of IoT with Arduino, Connecting and using various IoT
Cloud Based Platforms such as Blynk, Thingspeak, AWS IoT, Google Cloud IoT Core etc.
Cloud Computing, Fog Computing, Privacy and Security Issues in IoT.

III. References
9. Internet of Things - A Hands-on Approach, ArshdeepBahga and Vijay Madisetti,
Universities Press, 2015, ISBN: 9788173719547
10. Vijay Madisetti and ArshdeepBahga, “Internet of Things (A Hands-onApproach)”, 1st
Edition, VPT, 2014
11. Daniel Minoli, ― “Building the Internet of Things with IPv6 and MIPv6: The
Evolving World of M2M Communications”, ISBN: 978-1-118-47347-4, Willy
Publications
12. Pethuru Raj and Anupama C. Raman, "The Internet of Things: Enabling
Technologies, Platforms, and Use Cases", CRC Press
13. Open source software / learning websites

a. https://github.com/connectIOT/iottoolkit
b. https://www.arduino.cc/
c. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_cs22/course
d. http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse570-15/ftp/iot_prot/index.html
e. Contiki (Open source IoT operating system)
f. Ardudroid (open source IoT project)
g. https://blynk.io (Mobile app)
h. IoT Toolkit (smart object API gateway service reference implementation)
6. Other web sources suggested by the teacher concerned and the college librarian
including reading material.

IV. Co-Curricular Activities:

a) Mandatory: (Training of students by teacher in field related skills: (lab: 10 + field: 05) :
1. For Teacher: Field related training of students by the teacher in laboratory/field for not
less than 15 hours on identifying the case study for the IoT, design an IoT solution, build
physical IoT device, connect it to a mobile app and deploy the IoT device.
2. For Student: Students shall (individually) search online and visit any of the places like
aquaculture farms, agencies using IOT devices, etc to identify problems for IoT solution and
submit a hand-written Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work
Report not exceeding 10 pages. Example: Choosing a Problem for IoT solution (agriculture,
aquaculture, smart home appliances, testing moisture levels, oxygen levels, etc), reasons why
IoT solution is feasible for the said problem, material required, Design and architecture for
the proposed IoT device, method of implementation and how to connect the device to mobile.
3. Max marks for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project
work Report: 05.
4. Suggested Format for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work:
Title page, student details, index page, details of websites searched, place visited,
observations, findings, proposed IOT problem, and design of the IOT device, implementation
and acknowledgements.
5. Unit tests (IE).
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b) Suggested Co-Curricular Activities
1. Training of students by related industrial experts.
2. Assignments
3. Preparation and presentation of power-point slides, which include videos, animations,
pictures, graphics, etc by the students.
4. Seminars, Group discussions, Quiz, Debates etc. (on related topics).
5. Field visits to identify the problems for IoT solutions.

Course 6B: Internet of Things – PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

V. Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this practical course, student shall be able to:
1. Acquire the skills to design a small IoT device.
2. Connect various sensors, actuators, etc to Arduino board.
3. Connect the things to Internet
4. Design a small mobile app to control the sensors.
5. Deploy a simple IoT device.

VI. Practical (Laboratory) Syllabus: (30 hrs)

1. Understanding Arduino UNO Board and Components
2. Installing and work with Arduino IDE
3. Blinking LED sketch with Arduino
4. Simulation of 4-Way Traffic Light with Arduino
5. Using Pulse Width Modulation
6. LED Fade Sketch and Button Sketch
7. Analog Input Sketch (Bar Graph with LEDs and Potentiometre)
8. Digital Read Serial Sketch (Working with DHT/IR/Gas or Any other Sensor)
9. Working with Adafruit Libraries in Arduino
10. Spinning a DC Motor and Motor Speed Control Sketch
11. Working with Shields
12. Design APP using Blink App or Things peak API and connect it LED bulb.
13. Design APP Using Blynk App and Connect to Temperature, magnetic Sensors.

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 A.P. State Council of Higher Education
Semester-wise Revised Syllabus under CBCS, 2020-21
Course Code:
Four-year B.Sc.(Hons)
Domain Subject: Computer Science
IV Year B. Sc.(Hons) – Semester – V
Max Marks: 100 + 50
Course 7B: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT USING PYTHON
(Skill Enhancement Course (Elective), Credits: 05)

I. Learning Outcomes: Students after successful completion of the course will be able to:
1. Understand and appreciate the web architecture and services.
2. Examine Python syntax and semantics and be fluent in the use of Python flow control
and functions.
3. Demonstrate proficiency in handling Strings and File Systems.
4. Create, run and manipulate Python Programs using core data structures like Lists,
Dictionaries and use Regular Expressions.
5. Interpret the concepts of Object-Oriented Programming as used in Python.
6. Apply concepts of Python programming in various fields related to IOT, Web
Services and Databases in Python.

II. Syllabus: (Total Hours: 90 including Teaching, Lab, Field training, Unit tests etc.)

Unit - I (10 hours)

Python basics, Objects- Python Objects, Standard Types, Other Built-in Types, Internal
Types, Standard Type Operators, Standard Type Built-in Functions, Categorizing the
Standard Types, Unsupported Types
Numbers - Introduction to Numbers, Integers, Floating Point Real Numbers, Complex
Numbers, Operators, Built-in Functions, Related Modules
Sequences - Strings, Lists, and Tuples, Mapping and Set Types

Unit – II (10 hours)

Files: File Objects, File Built-in Function [ open() ], File Built-in Methods, File Built-in
Attributes, Standard Files, Command-line Arguments, File System, File Execution, Persistent
Storage Modules, Related Modules
Exceptions: Exceptions in Python, Detecting and Handling Exceptions, Context
Management, Exceptions as Strings, Raising Exceptions, Assertions, Standard Exceptions,
Creating Exceptions, Why Exceptions (Now)?, Why Exceptions at All?, Exceptions and the
sys Module, Related Modules
Modules: Modules and Files, Namespaces, Importing Modules, Importing Module
Attributes, Module Built-in Functions, Packages, Other Features of Modules

Unit – III (10 hours)

Regular Expressions: Introduction, Special Symbols and Characters, Res and Python
Multithreaded Programming: Introduction, Threads and Processes, Python, Threads, and the
Global Interpreter Lock, Thread Module, Threading Module, Related Modules

Unit – IV (10 hours)

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GUI Programming: Introduction, Tkinter and Python Programming, Brief Tour of Other
GUIs, Related Modules and Other GUIs
Web Programming: Introduction, Wed Surfing with Python, Creating Simple Web Clients,
Advanced Web Clients, CGI-Helping Servers Process Client Data, Building CGI
Application, Advanced CGI, Web (HTTP) Servers

Unit – V (10 hours)

Database Programming: Introduction, Python Database Application Programmer’s
Interface (DBAPI), Object Relational Managers (ORMs), Related Modules

III. References
1.Core Python Programming, Wesley J. Chun, Second Edition, Pearson.
2.Think Python, Allen Downey, Green Tea Press.
3.Introduction to Python, Kenneth A. Lambert, Cengage.
4.Python Programming: A Modern Approach, Vamsi Kurama, Pearson.
5.Learning Python, Mark Lutz, O’ Really.
6.Web sources suggested by the teacher concerned and the college librarian including
reading material.
IV. Co-Curricular Activities:
a) Mandatory: (Training of students by teacher in field related skills: (lab: 10 + field: 05)
1. For Teacher: Training of students by the teacher in laboratory/field for not less than 15
hours on field related skills like building an IOT device with the help of Python.
2. For Student: Students shall (individually) identity the method to link their IOT project
done in Paper 7A with Python and submit a hand-written Fieldwork/Project work/Project
work/Project work/Project work Report not exceeding 10 pages. It should include a brief
report on the selected case study of IOT device, algorithm and Python program to operate the
IOT device.
3. Max marks for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project
work Report: 05.
4. Suggested Format for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work:
Title page, student details, index page, design of the IOT device, implementation of Python
program to connect the IOT device, findings and acknowledgements.
5. Unit tests (IE).
b) Suggested Co-Curricular Activities
1. Training of students by related industrial experts.
2. Assignments
3. Seminars, Group discussions, Quiz, Debates etc. (on related topics).
4. Presentation by students on best websites.

Course 7B: Application Development Using Python– PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

V. Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this practical course, student shall be able to:
1. Implement simple programs in Python
2. Implement programs related to various data structures like lists, dictionaries, etc.
3. Implement programs related to files.

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4. Implement applications related to databases, Web services and IOT.

VI. Practical (Laboratory) Syllabus: (30 hrs.)

1. Write a menu driven program to convert the given temperature from Fahrenheit to
Celsius and vice versa depending upon user’s choice.

2. Write a python program to calculate total marks, percentage and grade of a student.
Marks obtained in each of the three subjects are to be input by the user. Assign grades
according to the following criteria :
Grade A: Percentage >=80
Grade B: Percentage>=70 and <80
Grade C: Percentage>=60 and <70
Grade D: Percentage>=40 and <60
Grade E: Percentage<40

3. Write a python program to display the first n terms of Fibonacci series.

4. Write a python program to calculate the sum and product of two compatible matrices.

5. Write a function that takes a character and returns True if it is a vowel and False
otherwise.

6. Write a menu-driven program to create mathematical 3D objects

I. curve
II. sphere
III. cone
IV. arrow
V. ring
VI. Cylinder.

7. Write a python program to read n integers and display them as a histogram.

8. Write a python program to display sine, cosine, polynomial and exponential curves.

9. Write a python program to plot a graph of people with pulse rate p vs. height h. The
values of P and H are to be entered by the user.
10. Write a python program to calculate the mass m in a chemical reaction. The mass m
(in gms) disintegrates according to the formula m=60/ (t+2), where t is the time in
hours. Sketch a graph for t vs. m, where t>=0.

11. A population of 1000 bacteria is introduced into a nutrient medium. The population p
grows as follows:
P (t) = (15000(1+t))/ (15+ e)

12. Where the time t is measured in hours. WAP to determine the size of the population at
given time t and plot a graph for P vs t for the specified time interval.

13. Input initial velocity and acceleration, and plot the following graphs depicting
equations of motion:
I. velocity wrt time (v=u+at)
II. distance wrt time ( s=u*t+0.5*a*t*t)
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 III. distance wrt velocity ( s=(v*v-u*u)/2*a )

14. Write a program that takes two lists and returns True if they have at least one common
member.

15. Write a Python program to print a specified list after removing the 0th, 2nd, 4th and
5th elements.

16. Write a program to implement exception handling.

17. Try to configure the widget with various options like: bg=”green”, family=”times”,
size=20.

18. Write a Python program to read last 5 lines of a file.

19. Design a simple database application that stores the records and retrieve the same

20. Design a database application to search the specified record from the database.

21. Design a database application to that allows the user to add, delete and modify the
records.

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 A.P. State Council of Higher Education
Semester-wise Revised Syllabus under CBCS, 2020-21
Course Code:
Four-year B.Sc.(Hons)
Domain Subject: Computer Science
IV Year B. Sc.(Hons) – Semester – V
Max Marks: 100 + 50
Course 6C: DATA SCIENCE
(Skill Enhancement Course (Elective), Credits: 05)

I. Learning Outcomes: Students after successful completion of the course will be able to:
1. Develop relevant programming abilities.
2. Demonstrate proficiency with statistical analysis of data.
3. Develop the ability to build and assess data-based models.
4. Demonstrate skill in data management
5. Apply data science concepts and methods to solve problems in real-world contexts
and will communicate these solutions effectively

II. Syllabus: ((Total Hours: 90 including Teaching, Lab, Field training, Unit tests etc.)

UNIT I (10 hours)

Introduction: The Ascendance of Data, What is Data Science? , Finding key Connectors,
Data Scientists You May Know, Salaries and Experience, Paid Accounts, Topics of Interest,
Onward.
Python: Getting Python, The Zen of Python, Whitespace Formatting, Modules, Arithmetic,
Functions, Strings, Exceptions, Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries, Sets, Control Flow, Truthiness,
Sorting, List Comprehensions, Generators and Iterators, Randomness, Object – Orienting
Programming, Functional Tools, enumerate, zip and Argument Unpacking, args and kwargs,
Welcome to Data Sciencester!
Visualizing Data: matplotlib, Bar charts, Line charts, Scatterplots.
Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices
UNIT II (10 hours)
Statistics: Describing a Single Set of Data, Correlation, Simpson’s Paradox, some Other
Correlation Caveats, Correlation and Causation.
Probability: Dependence and Independence, Conditional Probability, Bayes’s Theorem,
Random Variables, Continuous Distributions, The Normal Distribution, The Central Limit
Theorem.
Hypothesis and Inference: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Example: Flipping a Coin,
Confidence Intervals, P-hacking, Example: Running an A/B Test, Bayesian Inference.
Gradient Descent: The Idea behind Gradient Descent, Estimating the Gradient, Using the
Gradient, Choosing the Right Step Size, Putting It All Together, Stochastic Gradient Descent.

UNIT III (10 hours)

Getting Data: stdin and stdout, Reading Files – The Basics of Text Files, Delimited Files,
Scraping the Web - HTML and the parsing Thereof, Example: O’Reilly Books About Data,
Using APIs – JSON ( and XML), Using an Unauthenticated API, Finding APIs.
Working with Data: Exploring Your Data, Exploring One-Dimensional Data, Two
Dimensions Many Dimensions, Cleaning and Munging, Manipulating Data, Rescaling,
Dimensionality Reduction.

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Machine Learning: Modeling, What Is Machine Learning? Over fitting and under fitting,
Correctness, The Bias-Variance Trade-off, Feature Extraction and Selection

UNIT IV (10 hours)

K-Nearest Neighbors: The Model, Example: Favorite Languages, The Curse of
Dimensionality.
Naive Bayes: A Really Dumb Spam Filter, A More Sophisticated Spam Filter,
Implementation, Testing Our Model.
Simple Linear Regression: The Model, Using Gradient Descent, Maximum Likelihood
Estimation.
Multiple Regression: The Model, Further Assumptions of the Least Squares Model, Fitting
the Model, Interpreting the Model, Goodness of Fit.

UNIT V (10 hours)

Logistic Regression: The Problem, The Logistic Function, Applying the Model, Goodness of
Fit Support Vector Machines.
Decision Trees: What Is a Decision Tree? Entropy, The Entropy of a Partition, Creating a
Decision Tree, Putting It All Together, Random Forests.
Neural Networks: Perceptron, Feed-Forward Neural Networks And Back propagation,
Example: Defeating a CAPTCHA.
Clustering: The Idea, The Model, Example: Meetups , Choosing k, Example: Clustering
Colors, Bottom-up Hierarchical Clustering.

III. References
1. Data Science from Scratch by Joel Grus O’Reilly Media
2. Wes McKinney, “Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy,
and IPython”, O’Reilly, 2nd Edition, 2018.
3. Jake VanderPlas, “Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with
Data”, O’Reilly, 2017.
4. Web resources:
a. https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-data-with-python
b. http://math.ecnu.edu.cn/~lfzhou/seminar/[Joel_Grus]_Data_Science_from_Scr
atch_First_Princ.pdf
5. 9. Other web sources suggested by the teacher concerned and the college librarian
including reading material.

IV. Co-Curricular Activities:

a) Mandatory: (Training of students by teacher in field related skills: (lab:10 + field: 05):
1. For Teacher: Field related training of students by the teacher in laboratory/field for not
less than 15 hours on identifying, analyzing and presenting the data and then to predict the
future instances.
2. For Student: Students shall (individually) search online and visit any of the agencies like
Statistical cell, weather forecasting centers, pollution control boards, manufacturing
industries, agriculture departments, etc. to observe the manual process going on to collect the
data, maintain the data, present the data and to predict the data for future instances and submit
a hand-written Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work Report not
exceeding 10 pages.

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3. Max marks for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project
work Report: 05.
4. Suggested Format for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work:
Title page, student details, index page, details of place visited, observations, findings and
acknowledgements.
5. Unit tests (IE).
b) Suggested Co-Curricular Activities
1. Training of students by related industrial experts.
2. Assignments
3. Seminars, Group discussions, Quiz, Debates etc. (on related topics).
4. Presentation by students in related topics.

Course 6C: Data Science – PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

V. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this practical course, student shall be

able to:
1. Apply data science solutions to real world problems.
2. Implement the programs to get the required data, process it and present the outputs
using Python language.
3. Execute statistical analyses with Open source Python software.

VI. Practical (Laboratory) Syllabus: (30 hrs.)

1. Write a Python program to create a line chart for values of year and GDP as given
below

2. Write a Python program to create a bar chart to display number of students secured
different grading as given below

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3. Write a Python program to create a time series chart by taking one year month wise
stock data in a CSV file
4. Write a Python program to plot distribution curve
5. Import a CSV file and perform various Statistical and Comparison operations on
rows/columns. Write a python program to plot a graph of people with pulse rate p vs.
height h. The values of P and H are to be entered by the user.
6. Import rainfall data of some location with the help of packages available in R Studio
and plot a chart of your choice.

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 A.P. State Council of Higher Education
Semester-wise Revised Syllabus under CBCS, 2020-21
Course Code:
Four -year B.Sc.(Hons)
Domain Subject: Computer Science
IV Year B. Sc.(Hons) – Semester – V
Max Marks: 100 + 50
Course 7C: Python for Data Science
(Skill Enhancement Course (Elective), Credits: 05)

I. Learning Outcomes: Students after successful completion of the course will be able to:

1. Identify the need for data science and solve basic problems using Python built-in data
types and their methods.
2. Design an application with user-defined modules and packages using OOP concept
3. Employ efficient storage and data operations using NumPy arrays.
4. Apply powerful data manipulations using Pandas.
5. Do data pre-processing and visualization using Pandas

II. Syllabus: (Total Hours: 90 including Teaching, Lab, Field training, Unit tests etc.)

Unit - I (10 hours)

Introduction to Data Science - Why Python? - Essential Python libraries - Python

Introduction- Features, Identifiers, Reserved words, Indentation, Comments, Built-in Data
types and their Methods: Strings, List, Tuples, Dictionary, Set - Type Conversion- Operators.
Decision Making- Looping- Loop Control statement- Math and Random number functions.
User defined functions - function arguments & its types.

UNIT –II (10 hours)

User defined Modules and Packages in Python- Files: File manipulations, File and Directory
related methods - Python Exception Handling.
OOPs Concepts -Class and Objects, Constructors – Data hiding- Data Abstraction-
Inheritance.
UNIT –III (10 hours)
NumPy Basics: Arrays and Vectorized Computation- The NumPy ndarray- Creating
ndarrays- Data Types for ndarrays- Arithmetic with NumPy Arrays- Basic Indexing and
Slicing - Boolean Indexing-Transposing Arrays and Swapping Axes.
Universal Functions: Fast Element-Wise Array Functions- Mathematical and Statistical
Methods-Sorting- Unique and Other Set Logic.

UNIT –IV (10 hours)

Introduction to pandas Data Structures: Series, Data Frame and Essential Functionality:
Dropping Entries- Indexing, Selection, and Filtering- Function Application and Mapping-
Sorting and Ranking.
Summarizing and Computing Descriptive Statistics- Unique Values, Value Counts, and
Membership. Reading and Writing Data in Text Format

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 UNIT –V (10 hours)
Data Cleaning and Preparation: Handling Missing Data - Data Transformation: Removing
Duplicates, Transforming Data Using a Function or Mapping, Replacing Values, Detecting
and Filtering Outliers- String Manipulation: Vectorized String Functions in pandas.
Plotting with pandas: Line Plots, Bar Plots, Histograms and Density Plots, Scatter or Point
Plots.

III. References
1. Y. Daniel Liang, “Introduction to Programming using Python”, Pearson, 2012.
2. Wes McKinney, “Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy,
and IPython”, O’Reilly, 2nd Edition, 2018.
3. Jake VanderPlas, “Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with
Data”, O’Reilly, 2017.
4. Wesley J. Chun, “Core Python Programming”, Prentice Hall, 2006.
5. Mark Lutz, “Learning Python”, O’Reilly, 4th Edition, 2009.
6. Web resources:
a. https://www.edx.org/course/python-basics-for-data-science
b. https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-data-with-python
c. https://www.coursera.org/learn/python-plotting?specialization=data-science-
python
d. https://www.programmer-books.com/introducing-data-science-pdf/
e. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~keen/115/Haltermanpythonbook.pdf
7. Other web sources suggested by the teacher concerned and the college librarian
including reading material.

IV. Co-Curricular Activities:

a) Mandatory: (Training of students by teacher in field related skills: (lab:10 + field: 05):
1. For Teacher: Field related training of students by the teacher in laboratory/field for not
less than 15 hours on collecting the data, analyzing the data and presenting the data using
Python language with some real time data.
2. For Student: Students shall (individually) visit any of the agencies like Agriculture dept,
statistical cell, irrigation department, Ground water department, CPO office, Rural Water
Supply and Sanitation department etc or search online to get real time data like Aids
database, weather forecasting database, social networking data, etc and identify any one
database, implement and present the necessary charts in Python language and submit a hand-
written Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work Report not
exceeding 10 pages. Example: Identifying a database, get the data, present the data in
required charts and to predict the future instances if possible.
3. Max marks for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work Report:
05.
4. Suggested Format for Fieldwork/Project work/Project work/Project work/Project work:
Title page, student details, index page, and details of place visited, observations, method of
data collection, database identified, and implementation in Python language, other findings
and acknowledgements.
5. Unit tests (IE).

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b) Suggested Co-Curricular Activities
2. Training of students by related industrial experts.
3. Assignments
4. Seminars, Group discussions, Quiz, Debates etc. (on related topics).
5. Presentation by students on the topics within and outside the syllabus.

Course 7C: Python for Data Science – PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

V. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this practical course, student shall be

able to:
1. Implement simple programs in Python.
2. Implement programs related to various structures like arrays, lists, Data frames, etc.
3. Implement programs related to files.
4. Implement applications related to data science.

VI. Practical (Laboratory) Syllabus: (30 hrs.)

1. Perform Creation, indexing, slicing, concatenation and repetition operations on
Python built-in data types: Strings, List, Tuples, Dictionary, Set
2. Apply Python built-in data types: Strings, List, Tuples, Dictionary, Set and their
methods to solve any given problem.
3. Handle numerical operations using math and random number functions
4. Create user-defined functions with different types of function arguments.
5. Create packages and import modules from packages.
6. Perform File manipulations- open, close, read, write, append and copy from one
file to another.
7. Write a program for Handle Exceptions using Python Built-in Exceptions
8. Write a program to implement OOP concepts like Data hiding and Data
Abstraction.
9. Create NumPy arrays from Python Data Structures, Intrinsic NumPy objects and
Random Functions.
10. Manipulation of NumPy arrays- Indexing, Slicing, Reshaping, Joining and
Splitting.
11. Computation on NumPy arrays using Universal Functions and Mathematical
methods.
12. Load an image file and do crop and flip operation using NumPy Indexing.
13. Create Pandas Series and Data Frame from various inputs.
14. Import any CSV file to Pandas Data Frame and perform the following:
(a) Visualize the first and last 10 records
(b) Get the shape, index and column details
(c) Select/Delete the records (rows)/columns based on conditions.
(d) Perform ranking and sorting operations.

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 (f) Find the count and uniqueness of the given categorical values.
(g) Rename single/multiple columns

15. Import any CSV file to Pandas Data Frame and perform the following:
(a) Handle missing data by detecting and dropping/ filling missing values.
(b) Transform data using apply () and map() method.
(c) Detect and filter outliers.
(d) Perform Vectorized String operations on Pandas Series.
(e) Visualize data using Line Plots, Bar Plots, Histograms, Density Plots
and Scatter Plots.

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Draft Syllabus prepared by:
1. Dr. A.V. Kavitha, Asst. Professor in Computer Science, Government Degree
College for Women, Guntur.
2. Dr. M. Hussainaiah, Asst. Professor, Department of Computer Science, Vikram
Simhapuri University, Nellore.
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