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Understand the similarities between functions in JavaScript and Python. Identify key differences between functions in JavaScript and Python. Define functions with parameters. Call functions and use ...

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, ...