Week 13 agenda and readings -- Python functions
16 Nov 2011New topics and terms
We'll start going through these topics, which might continue into next week:
- Concept review -- see these introductory concept examples.
- Sequence types -- lists and strings. Some basic examples.
Defining your own functions
- Scope
- Return values
- Side effects
Readings
Read chapter 11, which discusses lists in more detail, in How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python. Go back to chapters 1-4 if you haven't done all the exercises yet.