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Lecture 4: Decomposition, Abstraction, and Functions
- Course
- Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python
- Instructor
- Dr. Ana Bell
- Department
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Recorded
- Fall 2016
- Level
- Undergraduate
Free account required. The lecture opens at MIT OpenCourseWare.
About this lecture
In this lecture, Dr. Bell discusses program structuring, functions, specifications, scoping, and the difference between the “return” and “print” keywords in Python.
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