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Python Functions: From Zero to Hero

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Thanks to this course, you will learn what functions are, how to create them correctly in python. Start your course with introductory exercises, a structure for creating functions, and basic examples. Show more

18 chapters

2 hours

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What you will learn

What is a Function?

Functions are one of the most important components of any programming language. Here we will learn how to create simple functions and see how use them to simplify the code

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Arguments or Parameters

Parameters and arguments are a piece of information that is passed to a function. Here we will learn how to work with them.

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Assigning a Default Value to a Parameter

In this section, we will learn what default parameters are and what they are used for. We will also learn how to create functions with them.

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What is a Function?

Functions are one of the most important components of any programming language. Here we will learn how to create simple functions and see how use them to simplify the code

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Arguments or Parameters

Parameters and arguments are a piece of information that is passed to a function. Here we will learn how to work with them.

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Assigning a Default Value to a Parameter

In this section, we will learn what default parameters are and what they are used for. We will also learn how to create functions with them.

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An Unknown Number of Arguments

What if we don't know exactly how many arguments we will send? Here we will learn how to fix this problem.

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Functions within Functions

Here we will learn how to create functions that are defined inside another function, and they are called inner or nested functions.

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Recursion

Recursion is a general mathematical and programming concept. Here we will learn how to implement recursive functions.

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The main thing is to learn and not give up

The material is good, there is a lot to learn, all in order to become better and the main thing is to learn what you want....

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Thanks to them I'm learning a lot…

Thanks to them I'm learning a lot faster because they help you to understand everything from scratch. It's the best website that helps people with no background in IT...

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great course for beginners

great course for beginners, they test your knowledge in every lesson...

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I am enjoying my Codefinity experience…

I am enjoying my Codefinity experience learning Python. The self-paced way of learning is great because I can fit it into my schedule...

Alexandru Alexandru

Is nice to learn from codefinity

Is nice to learn from codefinity. Its easy and have good examples on what I learned here...

jacob Templet

Easy to follow along with and provides...

Easy to follow along with and provides challenge in my every day life. The challenge keeps me wanting to learn day after day...

Elan

Codefinity is a comprehensive learning…

Codefinity is a comprehensive learning tool to help you develop your skills as a software engineer or data scientist. The exercises are fun and a good way to sharpen your skills...

Thibault

First time learning how to code

First time learning how to code and successfully doing so with codefinity - thank you...

Adrien Morel

Well designed for total beginners

Well designed for total beginners, incremental progress and makes me feel confident....

_Gracy

it's simply perfectly well explained

it's simply perfectly well explained! so far I have not experienced any difficulty because everything is so well managed...

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