Basics of Python Programming for Pharmaceutical Sciences (Theory)

Introduction to Python programming Installing Python and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) [Jupyter Notebook, PyCharm, VS Code etc.], Advantages of IDEs over text editors. Python variables and data types (integers, floats, strings, booleans), Type casting and basic operators (arithmetic, comparison, logical), Input and output operations. Basic string operations and manipulation techniques. Introduction to standard libraries and third-party libraries, installing and uninstalling libraries.

Control Structures & Functions Conditional statements (if, if-else, if-elif-else), nested conditions Loops (for loop, while loop). Break and continue statements. Defining and calling functions, passing arguments and returning values. Writing modular programs for simple pharmaceutical applications- dosage calculation and BMI calculation.

Data Structures & File Handling Lists, tuples, and dictionaries. Indexing and slicing lists, basic operations on lists and dictionaries, string manipulation techniques. Introduction to NumPy arrays, basic operations using NumPy (array creation, arithmetic operations). Reading and writing CSV files. Understanding structured healthcare datasets. Importing small pharmaceutical datasets and performing basic data access and manipulation tasks.

Data Handling with Pandas Introduction to Pandas library. Pandas Series and DataFrame structures. Reading CSV and Excel files-PK study datasets and ADR reports Inspecting datasets using functions such as head (), tail (), info (), and describe (). Data cleaning techniques and handling missing values. Filtering and selecting data based on conditions. Grouping data and performing aggregation functions.

Data Visualization with Matplotlib Introduction to Matplotlib. Creating line plots, histograms, scatter plots, and box plots. Labeling axes, titles, and legends. Create plots and visualize pharmaceutical datasets - concentration-time curves for oral and IV administration, ADR reporting rates across drugs, dissolution profiles. Scientific interpretation of plots.