Build deeper problem-solving skills by working with lists, strings, dictionaries and functions. Students learn to organize and structure their code, manipulate data effectively, and apply these skills to real-world projects with increasing confidence such as a daily step checker, movie ticket booking system, and contact book.

Students who have completed a basic Python course or are familiar with variables, loops, and conditionals

• What is a list?
• Creating lists (empty and with values)
• Accessing and modifying elements using indexing

• Adding and removing elements
• Looping through lists
• Membership operators (in and not in)

• Searching for elements in a list
• Counting and summing values
• Finding maximum/minimum (without built-ins)
• Removing duplicates (intro logic)

• Strings as sequences
• Indexing and looping through strings
• String length and basic operations

• Counting characters and vowels
• Checking palindromes
• Searching within strings
• Simple string transformations

• Why use functions?
• Defining functions
• Parameters and arguments
• Calling functions

• Using return
• Writing reusable functions
• Combining functions with lists and strings

• Key-value pairs
• Creating and accessing dictionaries
• Adding and updating values
• Looping through dictionaries (basic)
• Using .get() method and checking keys

• Mini-projects combining lists, strings, functions and dictionaries
• Example projects: word analyzer, simple guessing game, number analyzer

• Larger projects combining all concepts from the course
• Examples: quiz game with score tracking, simple contact book using dictionaries, menu-driven program