The document details a Python workshop led by Ebad Ullah Qureshi, focusing on control structures, loops, and conditional statements. It covers key concepts such as algorithms, input handling, decision-making statements, and loops, along with practical examples like a discount price calculator and a staircase pattern generator. The workshop aims to enhance programming skills by introducing fundamental Python programming constructs and their applications.

1. Instructor: Ebad ullah Qureshi
Email: ebadullah.qureshi@rutgers.edu
N2E Coding Club
Python Workshop
Control Structures
Loops & Conditionals

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Recap
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In the previous lesson
• Introduction to Python Language
• Output of a Program
• Data types – Integer, Floats, Strings
• Variables
• Operators – Arithmetic, Logical, Comparison and Assignment
In this Lesson
• Program Flow – Algorithms

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Algorithms and Python Scripts
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Algorithm is a set of steps used by the computer to solve a problem or accomplish a given task.
Features of algorithms
• Sequencing – Execution of instructions step by step
• Iteration – Using a loop, a block of instruction is executed several times
• Decision Making – Using conditional statements, the set of instructions are either executed or
bypassed
To implement algorithms – Python Scripts are written.
• Python scripts allows several lines of Python to be executed
• Python Scripts are written in a Python IDE
To begin writing a Python script, create a Project and a .PY file in Pycharm.

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Getting Input
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• In python, user is prompted for an input using the input function
• The inputs are always of type string
• The string inputs are converted into different data types when needed
• Python allows multiple inputs at the same time by specifying a delimiter in the split
function

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Getting Input – Example
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# Taking input
major = input("Enter your Major: “)
no_of_credits = int(input("Enter the number of credits you are enrolled in: "))
year, gpa = input("Enter your Year, GPA: ").split(',')
gpa = float(gpa)
print('You are enrolled in ' + year + ' year in ' + major +
' Major. You have currently taken', no_of_credits,
'credits and your GPA is ' + str(gpa))
Enter your Major: Computer Engineering
Enter the number of credits you are enrolled in: 15
Enter your Year, GPA: Junior, 3.58
You are enrolled in Junior year in Computer Engineering Major. You have currently
taken 15 credits and your GPA is 3.58
A Program that takes Major, Number of credits enrolled, GPA, and the Year of study as input and
then displays that information

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Discount Price Calculator – Problem
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Shopping during the sales can sometimes be very
confusing. With discounted prices at 10%, 20%, 50% or
even 70%!
For this challenge you are going to write a Python script
that prompts the user to enter a price (e.g. $90) and a
discount rate to apply (e.g. 20%).
Your program will then calculate and display the full
price, the discounted price and the savings.

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Discount Price Calculator – Source Code
# Input
price = float(input('Enter the Price of item ($): '))
discount_rate = float(input('Enter the percentage discount (%)'))
# Calculations
savings = price * discount_rate/100
discounted_price = price - savings
# Program Output
print('Original Price: $', price)
print('Discounted Price: $', round(discounted_price, 2))
print('Savings: $', round(savings, 2))

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Decision Making – Conditional Statements
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# simple if statement
test = 67 < 78
if test:
print('logical value of test is True')
logical value of test is True
• Decision making statements controls which instructions to execute in a program
• Decision structures evaluate expressions which produce True or False as the outcome that
dictates which statements to execute
• Python programming language assumes any non-zero and non-null values as TRUE, and
any zero or null values as FALSE value.

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Conditional Statements – if…else
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# simple if-else statement
condition = 24 == 56
if condition:
print('Condition is True')
else:
print('Condition is False')
Condition is False

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Conditional Statements – if…elif…else
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Number is in the range 10 to 19
# if-elif-else statements
number = 12
if (number >= 0) and (number < 10):
print('Number is in the range 0 to 9')
elif (number >= 10) and (number < 20):
print('Number is in the range 10 to 19')
elif (number >= 20) and (number < 30):
print('Number is in the range 20 to 29')
else:
print('Number is negative or greater than 29')

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Printing multiple times I
print('Hello World')
print('Hello World')
print('Hello World')
print('Hello World')
print('Hello World')
Print out ‘Hello world’ 5 times
Problem in the above code: Repetition of same code
• To achieve this, programming languages use control structures called loops.
• One cycle of a loop is called iteration
• Loops avoid repeated statements and are useful when the number of iterations depend upon
user’s input

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Loops – loop variables
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Loop initial value – Specifies the starting value of the loop
Loop end value – Specifies the end value of the loop
Body of the Loop – Statements inside the loop
Loop Condition – Logical value that dictates whether to execute the body of the loop or to exit
out of the loop
Loop Counter – The loop variable that tracks the number of iterations and the current iteration
Loop increment/decrement – The value by which the loop counter increases or decreases in each
iteration

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Loops – For Loop
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for loop_counter in range(loop_initial_value, loop_end_value, loop_increment):
Statements of the loop body.
End of loop body
• In a for loop, the number of iterations are specified. They can be known or unknown to the
programmer
• The default loop_initial_value is 0
• The default loop_increment is 1
• Loop terminates when loop_counter is equal to (or gets greater than) the loop_end_value

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Loops – While Loop
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loop_counter = loop_initial_value
while loop_condition:
Statements of the loop body.
End of loop body
loop_counter = loop_increment
• In a while loop, the number of iterations are dependent on the loop condition
• The number of iterations in a while loop can be known or unknown to the programmer

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Printing multiple times II
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The Problem about printing “Hello World” 5 times can be efficiently coded using loops.
The Loop body would be: print(‘Hello World’)
# for loop
for i in range(5):
print('hello world')
# while loop
count = 0
while count < 5:
print('hello world')
count += 1
 The loop body is executed 5 times
 loop_initial_value = 0
 loop_increment = 1
 To terminate the loop in case of a for loop →
loop_end_value = 5
 To terminate the while loop →
loop_condition = loop_counter < 5
 In both cases, Loop would run for the following values
of loop_counter: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4

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Break & Continue
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for i in range(5, 10):
print(i)
if i == 8:
break # Break Statement: Program exits out of the loop
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7
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for i in range(5, 10):
if i == 7 or i == 8:
continue # Continue Statement: skip certain iterations
print(i)
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9

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Staircase – Problem
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Consider a staircase of size: n = 10
Observe that its base and height are both equal to , and the image is drawn
using # symbols and spaces. The last line is not preceded by any spaces.
Write a program that prints a staircase of size .
Input Format
A single integer, , denoting the size of the staircase.
Constraints
0 < n ≤ 100
Output Format
Print a staircase of size using # symbols and spaces.
Explanation
The staircase is right-aligned, composed of # symbols and
spaces, and has a height and width of n = 10.

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Staircase - Approach
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#
# #
# # #
# # # #
# # # # #
# # # # # #
# # # # # # #
# # # # # # # #
# # # # # # # # #
# # # # # # # # # #
Observations
input n = number of lines
Iterate through each line such that
 line number (starting from 0) = loop counter
In each line for 10 lines
 number of whitespaces = 9 - loop counter
 number of symbols = loop counter + 1
In each line for n lines
 number of whitespaces = n-1 - loop counter
 number of symbols = loop counter + 1

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Staircase – Source Code
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lines = int(input('Enter the number of lines to be displayed: '))
for i in range(lines):
print((lines-1-i)*' ' + '#'*(i+1))
Enter the number of lines to be displayed: 5
#
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Further Exploration – Try these Patterns
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21. Instructor: Ebad ullah Qureshi
Email: ebadullah.qureshi@rutgers.edu
N2E Coding Club
Python Workshop
Control Structures
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