CHENNAI: IIT-Madras NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) will offer its ‘Programming, data structures and algorithms using Pytho.

More than 50% of first year students in engineering colleges were not able to clear Python programming language in the first semester exams for which results were declared on Tuesday.

But two Tamil-speaking snake trackers from India, who are in South Florida to help with the region's python problem, think "water snake" would be a more appropriate name.