Python Projects for Beginners: A Ten-Week Bootcamp Approach to Python Programming

© Connor P. Milliken 2020

C. P. MillikenPython Projects for Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5355-7_5

5. Functions

Connor P. Milliken¹ 

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Derry, NH, USA

 

This week begins the topic of functions. Along with loops, functions can be one of the tougher topics to understand. For this reason, this entire week has been dedicated to covering functions only. This is also one of the more important topics in programming. Knowing how to use a function will greatly improve your programming skills.

Functions give us the ability to make our programs much more powerful and clean while also saving us time. We’ll go over how they work on the first day, but the reason we use functions is because of the ability to write once and call repeatedly.

Many of the ...