Python functions

Reuven M. Lernerteaches Python, data science, and Git in the United States, Europe, Israel, and China.  Among his clients are Apple, Cisco, IBM, PayPal, VMWare, and Western Digital. He is an active developer and consultant, a panelist on the "Freelancers show" podcast, the Web technology columnist for Linux Journal, and the author of the ebooks "Practice Makes Python" and "Practice Makes Regexp."  He also publishes "Weekly Python Exercise," a subscription service to help you improve your Python.Reuven also publishes his free, weekly"Better developers" newsletter, in which he shares insights into programming with Python and other technologies.Reuven has a PhD in learning sciences from Northwestern University. He lives in Modi'in, Israel, with his wife and three children.

Reuven M. Lerner

I'll be teaching a class on Python functions on August 13th, 2017.  This class is aimed at a beginner-intermediate level, aimed at people with up to one year of Python experience; we'll look at the basics of writing Python functions, including: 
<UL>
<LI>What does "def" do?</LI>
<LI>Docstrings -- what, how and why</LI>
<LI>Functions parameters</LI>
<LI>Defaults</LI>
<LI>Return values + unpacking</LI>
<LI>*args</LI>
<LI>**kwargs</LI>
<LI>Scoping (LEGB)</LI>
</UL>
The class will be live, with a great deal of live-coding demos.  There will be many exericses that you'll be expected to solve during class, with ample opportunities for questions and comments at all points. 
In addition to access to the lecture, participants will receive:
<UL>
<LI>The Jupyter notebook that I'll be creating while talking</LI>
<LI>Files containing solutions to all of the exercises</LI>
<LI>PDFs of the slides</LI>
<LI>Access to the video recording of the class</LI>
</UL>
I hope that you'll be able to join me for this course!  If you have any questions, just e-mail me at <A HREF="mailto:reuven@lerner.co.il" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">reuven@lerner.co.il</A>.

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