Session Details

Week 2, Session 7 — Sec. 1: Fri Sep 14
Sec. 2: Fri Sep 14
Sec. 3: Thu Sep 13

Reading

  1. 6.1-6.4
    (12 pages)

HW Due

  1. HW 6

Topics

  1. Exam review
  2. Creating functions
  3. Passing values to functions
  4. Optional parameters

Outline

  1. [10 min] Hand-back quizzes, discuss questions
  2. [10 min] Review of topics for Exam #1
  3. [7 min] Basic Functions - Math, Maple, Python
  4. [5 min] Functions definition and invocation mechanics.
  5. [10 min] printFactorial example
  6. [ 5 min] Break
  7. [10 min] printDistance exercise
  8. [ 6 min] Preview: Functions that return a value
  9. [17 min] Nested function calls and execution order (includes code-reading exercise)
  10. [25 min] Functions and Graphics (continue for homework).

Functions and parameters

HW Assigned

  1. HW 7