Glossary term
What is function?
In Apex Flow Academy, "function" means: A named set of steps that you can run again and again. print is a function that comes with Python, and you can make your own. It is taught in Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work, JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive and Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced.
- 3 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is function?
A named set of steps that you can run again and again. print is a function that comes with Python, and you can make your own. (From Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work. 2 other courses define it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does function mean in Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work?
A named set of steps that you can run again and again. print is a function that comes with Python, and you can make your own.
What does function mean in JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive?
A named set of steps that you write once and run whenever you need it.
What does function mean in Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced?
A ready-made tool with a name, such as SUM, that you use inside a formula.
Where is function taught?
function is defined in Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work, JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive and Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced.
Python From Zero: Write Programs That WorkJavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come AliveMicrosoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced
Which lessons cover function?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work, lesson 4.1: Write Your Own Function
- Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work, lesson 4.2: Return a Value and Use Defaults
- Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work, lesson 4.3: Modules: Import Ready-Made Tools
- Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work, lesson 4.4: Check Your Functions with assert
- JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive, lesson 1.4: Write your own functions
- JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive, lesson 3.1: Pick items with filter
- JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive, lesson 5.4: Keep the page in step with one state object
Which terms are related to function?
Next to function in the course glossaries: directory, string, terminal, comment, program, variable, int and float, boolean, parameter and argument and return value.
directorystringterminalcommentprogramvariableint and floatbooleanparameter and argumentreturn value
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn function?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Python From Zero: Write Programs That Work: No programming experience is needed.
- JavaScript From Zero: Make Web Pages Come Alive: No prior programming and no CSS knowledge are needed; the style sheet you need is given to you.
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced: No earlier spreadsheet experience is needed.