> Having studied the examples given here, I am beginning to get some
> understanding of what is going on. If only I could find many more
> examples like these, in simple English, I would be a very happy student.
[Note: this is a fairly long post. Didn't know how to do the subject
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Dear Norman,
You can reuse function, this make your code more easy to handle.
Suppose you have code to calculate area of rectangle, but this time you like to calculate 3 times:
width = 3; length = 2
print 'area', width * length
width = 1; length =32
print 'area', width * length
width =
At 08:11 AM 10/16/2005, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>I am an elderly person somewhat physically handicapped with some
>experience programming in basic and pascal, many years ago. In order to
>keep myself mentally active I decided to have a look once again at
>programming and chose python as a good l
> I apologize to the list again for the noisy contentless ranting I made
> yesterday, so I'll try making it up by doing concrete demos of a
> function-focused approach. This will critique Zelle's Chapter Two and
> Chapter Five, and see what things would look like if under a function
> regime.
>
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Kent Johnson wrote:
> > I really wish that someone would take a similar approach in writing a
> > beginner Python tutorial that focuses on functions almost immediately,
> > even before control flow.
>
> You might like John Zelle's book - he teaches functions before control
>
