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Lecture 0 - Functions, Variables

The document provides an overview of programming in Python, covering the essentials such as writing code in a text editor, using the Python interpreter to translate code, and understanding functions, arguments, and side effects. It also discusses common programming concepts like bugs, return values, comments, and the importance of readability and simplicity in code. Additionally, it touches on defining functions, scope, and numeric formatting.

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Lecture 0 - Functions, Variables

The document provides an overview of programming in Python, covering the essentials such as writing code in a text editor, using the Python interpreter to translate code, and understanding functions, arguments, and side effects. It also discusses common programming concepts like bugs, return values, comments, and the importance of readability and simplicity in code. Additionally, it touches on defining functions, scope, and numeric formatting.

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1. Hello.

py

 All we need at the end of the day is so-called text editor, a program for writing text

 We just have to save it in a right format, all we need is a program for writing text,
because code is text

 The bottom is terminal window, it is the command line interface to underlying


computer

 It will generate a file name that ends in .py to indicate to the computer that it’s
indeed a program
2. Python Interpreter +

 We need to interpret that code from top to bottom, so the computer knows what to
do

 The computer only understands 0 and 1, the so-called binary system, we need to
somehow translate the code to 0 and 1 to let the computer understand it

 Python is known as interpreter that you install for free, and you can run that
program, that interpreter, passing to it as input (the name of file hello.py), the
program/interpreter will handle the process of reading it top to bottom, and
translate it to 0 and 1s, so the computer can understand

3. Functions, arguments and Side Effects

Function
 Every language comes from predefined functions, it is a very basic action or verbs
that the computer already know how to do that for you

 Hello.py now is using 1 function

Argument
 It is an input to a function that will influence the behavior of the function

Side Effect

 This is the ultimate result of what the program doing on the screen
 The functions can have these side effects
4. Bugs

 Bugs is the mistake in the program

 This one is called syntax error

5. Return values & variables

 The equal sign means assignment here


 We want to assign the value from right to left
6. Comments

 It is just a line of note to the logic in the program


 It reminds people what the intention of the program was
 It can act as a pseudocode to express your thought, it helps to break the bigger
program down to the bite-sized task

 We can add a comment like this


7. Multiple Function Arguments

 The print function automatically insert a space for you

 The + sign means concatenation.


8. Named parameters

 Functions take argument, and it will influence their behavior

 Everything inside in parentheses are parameters/arguments


 Lets override the default value

Positional parameters

 The first thing pass to print, it print that first, and the second one

Named parameters

 They are optional, and you can use them by name


9. Escaping Character +

 You can print the text with double quotes like this
10. F-string
 We need to tell python it is a format string

11. String Method +

 This is really bad problem

 We can make it more compact

 Strip will not take the space between the string


12. Split

13. Integers and Operations +

 Run python at itself by its prompt


 This is the interactive mode of python

 This is the interactive mode


14. Type conversion

 Readability is really important to remind us what the codes are doing


 Simplicity, keep our code simple

 It will increase the tactical mistake or logical error in your code


15. Float

 We expect the floating point from users

 Square bracket means the parameters are optional


16. Numeric Formatting +

17. Division
18. Defining function

 Def is for “define”.

 We can set the default value


19. Approach of using the defining function +

 If you call a function, the function must exist by the time we call it

 We have to define the function before we use it

 But it is not logical, as we have to keep adding things at the top


 The solution is we define the main part of code as “main”

 Nothing will happened as no one called the function main


20. Scope +

 As we define the “name” variable in the main function


 We can only use the “name” variable in the main function
21. Return value

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