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Defining and Calling Python Functions (Summary)

As applications grow larger, it becomes increasingly important to modularize code by breaking it up into smaller functions of manageable size. You now have the tools you need to do this.

In this course, you’ve learned:

  • How to create a user-defined function in Python
  • Several different ways you can pass arguments to a function
  • How you can return data from a function to its caller
  • How to add documentation to functions with docstrings and annotations

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silvanog31560 on Aug. 9, 2021

Thank you for this course, it was great! I am sure that once I get some practice I will come back to review this again!

aniketbarphe on Sept. 11, 2021

Great Course!

Premkumar on April 15, 2022

Thanks for the detailed course.

Brandon Hopkins on April 23, 2023

Thank you. You’re a great teacher.

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