3. Your First Programs
Programming is like writing a script, creating a predetermined list of words and actions for actors to perform night after night. A Python function is not so different. From within the interactive environment, you can execute a function as often as you like, and it will execute the same predefined “script.” (The term script can also refer to an entire program.)
Within the Python interactive development environment (IDLE), writing functions is the beginning of true programming. In this chapter, I explore how to write functions, including the following:
Using functions to calculate formulas
Getting string and numeric input ...
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