Learning how to define a function in Python is one of the most important steps to mastering the language. Functions are blocks of code that perform a specific task and can be “called” from any point ...

The three most common open source technologies for writing data science programs are Python, SciLab, and R. Here's how to write program-defined functions in R. There's no clear definition of the term ...

Local functions enable you to define a function within the scope of another method to help in promoting encapsulation and bring local variables into scope The support for local functions is an ...

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, ...