Yep. Exactly the same reason we break up procedures and functions into smaller units in procedural code, to be able to reason about individual pieces, and under

Yep. Exactly the same reason we break up procedures and functions into smaller units in procedural code, to be able to reason about individual pieces, and understand each step. I've never used Pandas, but I imagine I'd have the exact same instincts to break calculations up as you do, since Excel was my "first programming language" that I was first exposed to in the 4th grade, haha. I certainly didn't learn much advanced stuff at that point, mostly because of the time period and being in a rural Midwest area there weren't a lot of programmers around to learn from and the internet was rather different in the mid 90's. :) But Excel planted the seed of programming in my mind, even though I didn't know what "programming" was.