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More on Functions (Part 2) Intro to Computer Science CS1510, Section 2 Dr. Sarah Diesburg
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What are functions? Little pieces of code that we can write and invoke by name Reusable General 2
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Functions Take in any number of parameters Including no parameters! Possibly compute something Return a value Can be None If no return is specified, returns None 3
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Function that takes in no parameters def answerToEverything(): return 42 This function takes in no parameters It does no computation Just returns a number 4
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Function that returns nothing Let’s take a look at print() >>> result = print(“hi”) >>> print(result) None >>> 5
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None None is a special value in Python that represents nothing The first letter of None must be capitalized – it will turn orange Use it when you have nothing to return Like if one of the parameters was invalid 6
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Functions Remember, a function stops running when it hits a return statement Often times it is easier to write something as a function than as a script by itself Let’s look at our old script to find a prime number 7
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prime.py number = int(input("Please enter a number greater than 2. ")) isPrime = True #break out condition divisor = 2 while divisor<number and isPrime: if number%divisor==0: print("The number",number,"is divisible by",\ divisor) isPrime=False # Going to break out divisor=divisor+1 8
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prime.py (continued) if isPrime: print("That number is prime") else: print("That number is NOT prime") 9
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primeAsFunction.py def isPrime(number): for divisor in range(2,number): if number%divisor==0: return False return True Much smaller! 10
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Functions can also call themselves One function can invoke another function Let’s take a look at functionFun.py 11
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Future Programming Assignments I will ask you to write python files with only functions in them That’s ok – you can call functions directly from IDLE Step 1: Run your python file (F5) At interpreter, type your function name with parameters 12
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Example Take functionFun.py and deleted all the code starting at # Running the main part of the program Save Run the file Type >>> mySum = addNumToSelf(4) >>>print(mySum) 13
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Revisiting Design Documents Now that our future programming assignments will involve functions, I will expect more from your design documents and comments in your code 14
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Design Documents Your design document should have the following sections Small “users manual” General Description – Tell me generally what the program does in a sentence or two How to run program – Tell me how to run the program, including types of inputs and outputs expected New design document Paragraph - Tell me how your program works, broken down into major steps 15
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Code Comments Still do what you are already doing Before each function, list Function name Inputs – inputs parameters to your function and their types Output – what your function returns and its type Description – what your function does 16
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Example Program Let’s say that we are writing a computer- computer rock/paper/scissors game with 4 functions Function getWeapon(): no inputs, gets random weapon from “r”, “p”, “s”, returns “r”,”p”,”s” Function isTie(one,two): inputs weapons from both players, returns true if tie and false otherwise Function playerOneWins(one,two): inputs weapons from both players, returns true if player one wins and false otherwise 17
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Example Program Let’s say that we are writing a computer- computer rock/paper/scissors game with 4 functions Function rps(numberOfGames): input is the number of games (int), plays rock paper scissors with two computer players, and returns the result of the number of player1 wins, player2 wins, and ties in a string 18
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Remember… Write your design document and function comments first Then fill in the code 19
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Example Take a look at RPS.py and DesignOfRPS.txt to see what I am expecting. 20
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