• Unit 1: Introduction
• Unit 2: Expressions
• Unit 3: Data Types
• Unit 4: Conditional Logic
• Unit 5: Loops
• Unit 6: Functions
• Unit 7: Strings
• Unit 8: Defining Classes
• Unit 9: Loading and Plotting Data
• Unit 10: Tabular Data
• Unit 11: Nested Structures
• Unit 12: Simulation
• Unit 13: Recursion
• Unit 14: Bonus Topics
• Unit 15: Inheritance and Polymorphism

Unit 6: Functions

Students who complete this unit will demonstrate that they can:

• Refactor a program by identifying opportunities to apply procedural abstraction.
• Modify and expand short programs that use standard conditional and iterative control structures and functions.
• Design, implement, test, and debug a program that uses each of the following fundamental programming constructs: basic computation, simple I/O, standard conditional and iterative structures, the definition of functions, and parameter passing.
• Define and call functions.
• Describe the purpose of a parameter in a function definition.
• Distinguish between function parameters and arguments.
• Use a return statement.
• Explain the keyword None.
• Compare and contrast dynamic and static typing.
• Describe reasons for defining a new function.
• Identify common errors in a function.
• Determine a variable's scope.
• Distinguish between local and global variables.
• Define and create docstrings for a function.

Contents

• Forum 6
• Optional Exercise: Symmetry with Turtles
• Preparation 6
• Slides for Unit 6