In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...

The core value of functions lies in encapsulating repetitive computational logic into independent modules, achieving generalized processing through parameter passing and return value mechanisms. For ...

Python trades runtime speed for programmer convenience, and most of the time it’s a good tradeoff. One doesn’t typically need the raw speed of C for most workaday applications. And when you need to ...

The Python programming language, despite its ease of use, offers a depth of useful functions, modules and data structures. One of these data structures, the "dictionary" data structure, functions as a ...