Captain Code: Unleash Your Coding Superpower with Python

Chapter 11Getting Func-ky

Welcome to Part II. In this section you are going to build a retro-style text adventure game. Along the way, you’ll learn lots of new techniques for creating powerful applications. But first we need to revisit functions, and this time you’ll learn how to write your own functions.

Functions Revisited

You know what functions are. You’ve seen and used lots of them: input(), print(), int(), now(), upper(), choice(), and many others.

As a reminder, a function is made up of three parts:

Part	Description	Required	Example
Name	The unique function name	Yes	An example is print(). The name is how you call the function ...