Hi, currently more and more schools are trying Py, so studens read tutorial docs from time to time... and one of main programming (architecture) subjects starts with quite a mathematical and unpractical example..
http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#defining-functions It's like teaching to pilot airplane, prior to bicycle and car :) I'd propose some simple examples at first: like in http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for_Python_3/Defining_Functions or http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/functions/ def greeting( person ): print( "Hello", person ) def add(a, b): result = a+b return result z = add(3, 5) # could aslso graphically show, how data (arguments/results) travel # as in C++ example def absolute_value(n): if n < 0: n = -n return n def count_down( n ): while n > 0: print( n ) n = n-1 def average( mylist ): return sum(mylist) / len(mylist) def decide_on_scholarship( marks ): avg = average(marks) if avg > 9.5: return 1000 elif avg >= 8: return 200 else: return 0 Maybe there is some other list, where it would be more appropriate to discuss this? -- Jurgis Pralgauskis tel: 8-616 77613; Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) http://galvosukykla.lt _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
