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.

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Functions are the verbs of programming — and Python's functions play an important role is making your programs easier to write, read, undertand, and maintain. In this course, we'll discuss Python's functions from a variety of different angles.  
In particular, we'll discuss:   
<UL>
<LI>Invoking functions</LI>
<LI>Functions are data</LI>
<LI>Functions vs. methods</LI>
<LI>Docstrings</LI>
<LI>Return values and unpacking </LI>
<LI>Basic parameters</LI>
<LI>Defaults</LI>
<LI>*args</LI>
<LI>**kwargs </LI>
</UL>
The course is four hours long, and includes not just explanations and live coding, but also many exercises, as well as ample time for Q&A. 
If you have been using Python for up to six months, you will come away from this course understanding how to write and use functions, thus making your code more "Pythonic" than before.

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