STEP 12: Now that we've finished encoding our word, we need to return it!

RULE: use a return statement at the end of a function to return a value so it can be used outside the function.

• Go to and drag Return Statement INSIDE the function, but OUTSIDE the loop.
• Change the variable in the return statement from my_var to code_word.

This function will return the value of code_word. We passed in "hello" , so it will return: "ellohay".

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