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In this chapter, you learn how to group statements into functions, which enables you to tell the computer how to do something, and to tell it only once. You won’t need to give it the same detailed instructions over and over. The chapter provides a thorough introduction to parameters and scoping, and you learn what recursion is and what it can do for your programs.
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© 2008 Magnus Lie Hetland
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Hetland, M.L. (2008). Abstraction. In: Beginning Python. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0634-7_6
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