Python Reading

• Read the chapter entitled Functions.

Key Ideas

• Be able to write a function.
• Be able to call a function.
• Understand function parameters.
• Understand the difference between a fruitful function and a non-fruitful function.
• Understand the difference between a local variable and a global variable.

Active Learning

• Examine house.py and identify appropriate functions that would improve the solution.
• Implement the functions.

• Take a look at montecarol_pi.py and make sure that you understand it fully.
• Add appropriate comments to estimate_pi()
• Is estimate_pi() a fruitful or non-fruitful function? Why? 
• Is main() a fruitful or non-fruitful function? Why? 
• Play around with the program. How accurate can you get pi to be?
• What's the tradeoff with high accuracy in the estimation of pi? Why?